Role of the centre
In the Rogaland area of Norway the broadband infrastructure is excellent. On a large scale both county and municipalities have a very high utilization coverage based on open access fiber networks. Broadband connections of more than 5 Gbps are available in all the major cities and municipality centres.
Besides the broadband infrastructure, the University of Stavanger and several companies in the area have invested in world-class data centers and media centres. This is much due to the region being the core region for the Norwegian petroleum Industry. On the basis of this infrastructural foundation the attention is now shifting to broadband services. The region aims, as the petroleum business is decreasing, to be among the leading regions in the development, deployment and provisioning of broadband services. The focus for the coming years will be on the development and implementation of new products and services.
The county together with the University and several industrial partners have in addition development plans and running development projects for food industry, tourism industry, culture industry, maritime industry, and renewable energy, to which the new broadband services are key tools.
The E-CLIC Centre is meant to be a physical and virtual meeting place for talented students, young entrepreneurs, renowned business developers and innovative and leading companies. It aims to boost innovation by providing an enabling, inspiring, and business-driven high-tech environment for these talented, ambitious and creative persons in the realm of new internet and broadband applications, high performance networks, service grids as well as of media business and gaming. These market sectors offer great opportunities to creativity and high quality initiatives.
The center should be able to attract talents and creativity with its unique technical facilities, with attractive innovative projects and its professional support of highly motivated representatives from participating companies. The Centre will be organized by University of Stavanger, as facilities in buildings, support, equipment and full studios and the students are available within the premises. Close involvement of iPark and RKK ensures the outflow of students/talents, and feedback to the quality of the training programs and the institutional embedding of the center.
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 [Geolocation of centre indicated by red dot. Other centres located in map are indicated by blue dot.]
Participating Partners
- University of Stavanger (8000 students, full scale new media production studios, multimedia developers etc located in three faculties, a Centre for Industrial Asset Management, a Centre for Innovation, a Centre for behaviour science, and a Centre for Reading skills) http://www.uis.no
- iPark, Innovation Park Stavanger (incubator for new companies, now 140 companies with 600 employees) http://www.ipark.no
- RKK, Rogaland Training and Education Centre ( providing vocational training and contunuing education in courses to companies and people worldwide, now 1500 teachers part time and 15000 students part time in online teaching) http://www.rkk.no
- A number of private media and ICT companies, participating as stakeholders
Background of Partners
The University of Stavanger has broad expertise in other ICT or Broadband related Interreg projects, such as “ICT for SMEs”, “Baltic Rural Broadband”, and “BIRD”. The University of Stavanger works closely together with IRIS, the International Research Institute of Rogaland, iPark and RKK in the field of education & training and business related innovative projects. The University of Stavanger are the main provider of education in the region with some 8000 full-time students.
RKK are the main provider of training in the region with some 15,000 part-time students. The expertise of both educational institutes in the field of ICT applications and broadband services for training purposes in close co-operation with the regional and international companies will lead to a stimulating and creative atmosphere in the centre for both, students and companies and will create new opportunities for young entrepreneurs in the region Rogaland.
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Contact
Centre Leader
Jan Frick
University of Stavanger
Entrepreneurship Week 12 - 16 october.
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Activities
E-CLIC Rogaland will participate in all work packages but will be mainly involved in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP6. In WP 1 Rogaland will set up regional management structure, steering of daily working process, make sure results will be delivered according to plan.
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Areas of Expertise
- Television Studios
- Media Research
- Technical Engineering
- Business Research and Education
- Nettop Multimedia Development Centre
- Student Entrepreneurship Centre
- Incubator för new companies
- CIAM (Centre For Industrial Asset Management)
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