The last EU-Japan conferences in the field of "Future Internet" technologies and systems held in Tokyo last October  has successfully reconfirmed the mutual interest for tighter links between European and Japanese research actors in this domain.

In follow-up to this event, we would now like to explore with the relevant research communities the possibilities to implement concrete EU research activities with Japanese partnership in the context of the next ICT work programme, which will cover the 2011-2012 period.

This will be the objective of the 3rd EU-Japan symposium on Future Internet and New Generation Networks  which will take place in Tampere, Finnland, on 20 and 21 October 2010. Similarly to the last event in Tokyo, opportunities to visit research centres and to see advanced networked technologies and services will be offered by the Finnish hosting organisers on the 22nd of October.

The event is organised to maximise interactions between the European and Japanese participants. The target outcome of the sessions will be to identify a number of potential proposals, to be submitted under the upcoming "Challenge 1" related calls of the next ICT work programme, where Japanese partners could participate. In this context, participants to the event are invited to make a five minute presentation ( 2 to 3 slides) outlining their views on future ICT proposals and on topics where they could consider to team up with Japanese partner(s).

Japanese participants to the event will make similar short presentations, outlining their research interests and the type of activities where they would welcome partnership with European actors. Following these presentations, about half of the remaining session time will be devoted to more interactive discussions between potentially "matching" interests.

Discussions and interaction will be organised through four parallel sessions of about 6 hours over the two days, addressing the following topics:

• - Future Internet Architectures
• - Test Beds and experiments
• - Service Platforms for knowledge
• - Mobility and "green" networks

Website with preliminary agenda and registration can be found here.