E-CLIC - European Collaborative Innovation Centres

for broadband media services

CentreArea

	E-CLIC Värmland

	E-CLIC Borås

	E-CLIC Hannover

	E-CLIC Wilhelmshaven

	E-CLIC Groningen

	E-CLIC Kortrijk

	E-CLIC Norfolk

	E-CLIC Rogaland

E-CLIC Wilhelmshaven

Key focus area of the centre: In Wilhelmshaven the main topics of the centre will be human capital management and business development within the scope of new clusters for media development in rural areas.

Role of the centre

E-CLIC Wilhelmshaven will start a participation process with major industry actors will implement projects for testing broadband access and services.

The main focus of the projects within the centre will be on broadband infrastructure for new media services and the business models behind it. Sustainability concepts for decentral processing, usability within the scope of e-government and demographic change will be key elements of the E-CLIC. A key aspect will be the interactiveness between the services in urban regions and the services in rural areas – new services e.g. in the e-health or e-government sector will be used more in rural than in urban areas.

To get an idea which impacts new services will have in rural areas, and how to solve the broadband access problems, not only focussing on access but more on sustainability in services and e-community, the German Association for Digital Economy will support the German E-CLICs, with information and networking all over the North Sea Region.

[Geolocation of centre indicated by red dot. Other centres located in map are indicated by blue dot.]

Participating Partners

University of Applied Sciences of Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Elsfleth(FH WOE)
A number of private media and ICT companies, participating as stakeholders

Background of Partners

The University of Applied Sciences of Oldenburg, Ostfriesland and Wilhelmshaven (FH OOW) was founded in 2000. It has about 10,000 students, 800 employees – including 300 professors on five locations (Oldenburg, Elsfleth, Emden, Leer and Wilhelmshaven) and offers more than 50 study courses. The University of Applied Sciences co-operates with 132 universities in some 30 countries, and participates in multiple international programmes.

To the Faculties of Engineering in Wilhelmshaven practical exercises are an important part of the potential engineers’ training. Practical work is essential for instance in media technology. Whether it is work in the university sound studio or behind the camera in the TV studio next door. The mobile transmission van, equipped with all the latest professional audio and video technology, is often in use during exercises.

The University of Applied Sciences focuses on application oriented research and cooperates with business and service companies.

Through technology transfer points, cooperative projects are set up and attended by companies and researchers and laboratories. An important target group are small and medium-sized companies as there is a need to support the innovation activities of SMEs. The offer of transfer of technology is open to all who are interested, large corporations as well as individuals.