Next gEneration netwoRked mEdia over 4G+ infrastrUctureS Erasmus Project

Project Title

Next gEneration netwoRked mEdia over 4G+ infrastrUctureS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

NEREUS is an ERASMUS+ project in the field of “Next generation networked media over 4G+ infrastructures”, funded by the State Scholarships Foundation of the Greek Ministry of Education (IKY) under the Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education (KA2) framework (2016-1-EL01-KA203-023637). Its main objective was to design, implement and deliver a multidisciplinary programme for skills development, involving principles from Informatics and Internet technologies, Telecommunications and Network engineering, Social Media sciences and Security. Towards this direction, NEREUS elaborated on cutting-edge topics that were of major importance for societal, cultural and economic prosperity, and with strategic impact in Europe’s 2020 Agenda for sustainable growth and competitiveness, focusing onto: i) Novel media coding and “green” transport mechanisms, ii) Open network architectures with service orchestration, iii) QoS/QoE modelling & management, iv) Next generation cloud-based services, and v) Secure and trustworthy communications. Towards obtaining these objectives, NEREUS team comprised of five European HEIs with identical but complimentary expertise. More specifically, NEREUS consortium comprised of the:
• Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece, which has extensive R&D experience and educational know-how in fixed/mobile communications, service/network virtualisation, Future Internet architectures, network management and administration techniques, and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Department of Communications and Computer Engineering (CCE), University of Malta (UoM), which has established know-how and expertise in resilient multimedia transmission techniques, 3D and Multi-view Video Coding technologies, protocols and applications for environmental-friendly media delivery.
• Telecommunications department of the ENSEIRB-MATMECA school of engineers, Bordeaux INP (UoB), which has extensive R&D know-how in the fields of real-time network adaptation and dynamic resource allocation for multimedia provisioning, End-to-End QoS mechanisms and Network- and Content- awareness.
• Computer Science department of the School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Nicosia (UoN), which has established know-how in high performance cloud and mobile cloud computing systems, modelling and simulation of mobile computing environments and protocol development, new ‘green’ mobility-based protocols for large-scale heterogeneous networks.
• Engineering and Computing department (SEC), School of Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM), Kingston University (KU), which has extensively involved in wireless communications research, 5G networking, cognitive radio, wireless sensor networks, security and management protocols, emergency service communications, wireless multimedia and 3D applications.
The efforts of NEREUS partners were focused on three types of activities at Managerial, Scientific/Technological/Educational, and Dissemination levels. At managerial level the efforts were on coordinating/monitoring the project’s S/T activities and establishing mechanisms to ensure quality of work and in time delivery of project’s Outputs, as well as on monitoring the budget related activities and assuring that these met the scheduled plan. The scientific/technological/educational efforts were focused on the design, implementation and fine-tuning of the project’s IOs, including the implementation of intensive courses for testing/evaluating the educational content with real/actual students. Dissemination efforts were focused on activities for raising awareness of NEREUS concept and results to the relevant stakeholders from the research, industrial and business sectors, as well as to the general public, including the organisation and implementation of multiplier events as well as dissemination through the web, leaflets, triptychs, posters, journal papers, conferences and scientific publications. As a results, NEREUS offered educational material for final year Bachelor and 1st year MSc students in the form of 5 modules, all of which were summarised in a whole course accumulating 10 ECTS in total (each module accumulating a work effort equal to 60 teaching hours, which correspond to 2 ECTS). Overall, it is anticipated that all NEREUS results constitute valuable outputs with high impact not only for the participating HEIs and their students, but also for other European/International HEIs and the relevant stakeholders. HEIs may adopt the NEREUS material towards updating their curriculum and programme of studies in the field of ICTs, students may acquire them towards improving/enhancing their skills in the fields of networked media and future Internet infrastructures, while stakeholders – and the society in general – may be benefited by the talented young engineers towards fostering innovation and gearing-up sustainable growth both at regional and national/global levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 218699 Eur

Project Coordinator

ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO & Country: EL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
• EDEX – EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE CORPORATION LIMITED
• INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX
• KINGSTON UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION