European Alliance for Innovation

European Alliance for Innovation

The pictogram represents a Möbius strip in order to display the connection of research and innovation.
Founded	2010
Type	Professional Community
Focus	Internet of Things, eHealth, Smart city, Applications for future internet
Headquarters	Ghent, Belgium
Method	Community, Conferences, Summits, Publications
Members	ICST,[1] Fraunhofer FOKUS,[2] INNOVA,[3] Create-Net,[4] Mobicap,[5] Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja,[6] STU,[7] EUREC,[8] Microsoft Israel R&D Center, IBM Israel and over 250 other institutional members [9]
President	Imrich Chlamtac
Website	www.eai.eu

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) is an international professional association and a nonprofit organization.^[10] The goal of EAI is to promote fruitful research and help innovation reach the market through community collaboration.

The head headquarters of EAI are located in Ghent, Belgium. Other offices are located in the Slovak Republic, Germany and the USA.^[11] The office in Bratislava was created in cooperation with the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.^[12]

The organisation was founded by professor Imrich Chlamtac in 2010 and currently EAI has over 27 000 individual members, more than 250 institutional members and is active on all continents.^[13]

The company organizes events and conferences and provides support for the members, trying to improve the rate at which innovations reach the market.

Publication activities

EAI publishes scientific magazines and journals through its own community-driven publication platform called European Union Digital Library (EUDL).^[14] For online publications EAI uses its e-Scripts system,^[15] while EUDL houses a database of peer reviewed scientific publications.

Event activities

EAI organizes over 70 conferences and summits every year.^[16] These include:

• MOBIQUITOUS^[17] - 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
• WISATS^[18] - 7th EAI International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Systems
• INTETAIN^[19] - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
• MOBIMEDIA^[20] - 8th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications
• CROWNCOM^[21] - 10th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks
• INISCom^[22] - 1st International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
• ICSON^[23] - First International Conference on Self-Organizing Networks
• Science and Solutions for a Sustainable Environment Conference 2014^[24]
• VALUETOOLS^[25] - 8th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
• BICT^[26] - 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies
• 5GU^[27] - 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity
• GAMENETS^[28] - 5th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks
• IoT360 Hackathon^[29]
• IoT360 Summer School^[30] - International IoT360 Summer School on the Internet of Things

Collaborations

The European Alliance for Innovation has set up strong collaboration and a strategic partnership with the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA).

References

1. "Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering".'
2. "Page of the Fraunhofer Fokus institute".'
3. "INNOVA S.p.A.".'
4. "Create-net webpage".'
5. "Mobicap webpage".'
6. "APVV website".Slovak Agency for the support of Research and Development
7. "Website of Slovenská Technická Univerzita".Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
8. "EUREC".eurec.be
9. "EAI webpage".A list of institutional members according to the European Alliance for Innovation
10. "About EAI".eai.eu website
11. "List of EAI offices".eai.eu
12. "Mobicap webpage".Video of the signature of the memorandum
13. "List of EAI members".eai.eu
14. "European Union Digital Library".eudl.eu
15. "e-Scripts".escripts.eai.eu
16. "EAI conferences".eai.eu
17. "MOBIQUITOUS".mobiquitous.org
18. "WISATS".psats.eu
19. "INTETAIN".intetain.org
20. "MOBIMEDIA".mobimedia.org
21. "CROWNCOM".crowncom.org
22. "INISCom".iniscom.org
23. "ICSON".self-net.org
24. "Science and Solutions for a Sustainable Environment Conference 2014".ssseconference.org
25. "VALUETOOLS".valuetools.org
26. "BICT".bionetics.org
27. "5GU".5guconference.org
28. "GAMENETS".gamenets.org
29. "IoT360 Hackathon".iot-360.eu
30. "IoT360 Summer School".iot-360.eu