<IMPACT> Connected Car Community reaches 400 members. Join us!

Submitted by David Seoane on 16 May 2018

#ICCAR joins a team of 17 powerful partners around 5 c-car cluster Regions based in Spain, Poland, Denmark, France, and Czech Republic and framed within worldwide global leader representatives of automotive (FIA Region 1PSA), infrastructure (FERROVIAL) and ICT ecosystems like FIWARE, built around the open source platform that is becoming the platform of choice for development of smart solutions worldwide.

Over 15 additional partners support us in community building:  MAPFRE, VALEO, BOSCH, ITS Spain, FARADAY, and more…

#ICCAR congratulates to announce that its Community has reached 400 members this week!

Want to contact with them? The C-CAR Community, ncluding these key players of the C-Car industry, is the best way!

Come and Join us!

Meet the description of our members below and if you want to get in touch with them, Join the community

FundingBox is the go-to platform for digital disruptors to join tech communities and win public funding. FundingBox is a community where entrepreneurs can meet, interact and collaborate to win public funding. FundingBox provides “scale ups” (startups and tech SMEs) with simple and personalized access to both public funding and interactive tech communities. Awarding bodies use FundingBox to distribute their funding and build communities that can grow and become integral parts of their ecosystems.  FundingBox has over 25 years’ experience in public funding, having won over €1 billion for its customers in this period. The company is composed of more than 30 professionals, with hubs in Spain, Denmark and Poland.

ISDI is an institution created by Internet industry professionals in 2009. ISDI contributes to digital transformation and generates a competitive ecosystem by training digital professionals, promoting digital talent, disseminating knowledge, supporting entrepreneurs and transforming companies.

With headquarters in Madrid, Barcelona, Mexico D.F. and Silicon Valley, ISDI is the first “digital native” business school in Spain and has more and more online, mixed and blended executive courses. ISDI also provides personalized training in digital disciplines in Spain and other countries to companies including Telefónica, Correos, Gas Natural, Mapfre, Bankia, BBVA, El Corte Inglés, Vodafone, Prisa, Godó, Coca Cola, Nestle, and Danone.

In addition, through the ISDI Foundation, the school forms and advises NGOs in their development in the digital field, and supports and promotes initiatives linked to digital skills and programming concepts for children.

ISDI participates in initiatives to reduce unemployment through training with various institutional bodies and participates with the European Commission in designing the new framework of professions for the Digital Agenda 2020.

The FIWARE Foundation is the legal independent body providing shared resources to help achieving the FIWARE mission that is to develop an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards that will ease the creation of Smart Solutions in multiple sectors.

The FIWARE Foundation accomplishes its goal by promoting, augmenting, protecting, and validating the FIWARE technologies as well as the activities of the FIWARE community, empowering its members including end users, developers and rest of stakeholders in the entire ecosystem. The FIWARE Foundation is open: anybody can join contributing to a transparent governance of FIWARE activities and rising through the ranks, based on merit.

Mobile World Capital Barcelona is an initiative driving the mobile and digital transformation of society while helping improve people’s lives globally. With support of the public and private sector throughout Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain, MWCapital focuses on three areas: the empowerment of new generations, professionals and citizens in the use of digital technologies; the digital transformation of industries; and the acceleration of innovation through digital-based entrepreneurship. Collectively, our programmes are positively transforming Education, Industry and the Economy. MWCapital hosts the Mobile World Congress and delivers 4 Years From Now [4YFN], a business platform for the startup community.

Ferrovial Servicios, SA, is the company of Ferrovial Group, which within the Services Division, operates in Spain, Portugal and other countries in the areas of comprehensive maintenance of facilities, industrial facility and energy management.

Ferrovial is currently managing more than 2700 buildings, offering the following services: comprehensive maintenance of buildings and lighting installations (electric, compressed air, heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration, fire protection…), facilities management, industrial installations’ maintenance, energy management, energy services for buildings and street lighting, installations’ implementation and audits, road and infrastructure maintenance and cleaning.

CTAG (Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia) is a private, non-profit R&D technology centre devoted to support the automotive industry in its research, development and innovation needs. CTAG is present in all the stages of product development, from initial advanced research to product life. The fields of competence where CTAG concentrates its activities are: Style and Human Machine Interface, New materials, Mechanical engineering, Electronics and ITS – Intelligent Transportation Systems, Passive safety, Powertrain and Emissions, NVH, Test engineering and Manufacturing processes.

INSERO is a Danish greentech consulting and technology development firm specialised in developing the business of public and private companies in the areas of energy and information and communications technology (ICT). The INSERO group is a knowledge-based company, established in 2008 as a private equity firm dedicated to operating within the energy and ICT domains with a number of cluster companies under its direct control. Collectively the INSERO group has more than 25 years of experience with ICT & Energy projects in both national and European context. Projects range from large-scale commercial development projects to Nordic and European R&D-projects. In addition to strong technical competences within the energy and ICT fields INSERO also has expert competences within innovation processes, dissemination activities and business modelling techniques, with specific emphasis on small and medium enterprises.

Mov’eo is a non profit organisation and focuses its actions on “automotive & advanced transports safe for man and his environment”. The cluster brings together most of the French automotive players: world class companies, SMEs and research organizations (more than 380 members) in order to generate collaborative projects, to create innovations and to develop research activities on its territories. Local and national authorities are involved in this “research-driven cluster” dynamic.

MSAK (Moravian-Silesian Automotive Cluster) was established to increase competitiveness and to encourage innovation and export capacity of interconnected companies, entrepreneurs and institutions in the region. It seeks to build a common identity of companies in the cluster and wants to create confidence and positive attitudes towards the automotive industry and the whole region. MSAK actively provides sustainable development services for its 75 members and coordinates the innovative approaches in the development of human resources, trade relations and R&D activities.

Lublin Science and Technology Park objective is to develop the existing research potential of Lublin, Lublin environment especially universities and institutes by promoting a culture of innovation, the integration of the scientific community, development of cooperation with scientific institutions and research institutes,   promoting the competitiveness of universities and research institutes, promoting technology transfer and commercialization of research results from research institutions to business practice. LPNT is also the initiator and coordinator of The Polish Research and Development Cluster of the Internet of Things, the largest voluntary association of more than 50 companies, startups, universities working for Polish IoT. 

PARP (Polish Agency for Enterprise Development) is main governmental body to support creation and development of polish SME’s. It acts under Ministry of Development and is managing both state and EU funds to fulfil its tasks. PARP through various measures support innovative polish companies both in Internet of Things area and automotive technologies. As a central body set to support polish SME ecosystem PARP is great partner who can act as point of contact spreading information and coordinating Polish companies in these industries to help achieve projects goal. PARP will lead actions for replicability of cooperation model at European Level. Close cooperation with European commission and implementing bodies will be helpful in scaling project for Europe.

PSA AUTOMOBILES was created when the PEUGEOT brand bought the CITROËN brand in 1976, and later on in 1978 the Chrysler Europe brand. Employing 194.000 persons worldwide, PSA Group brings together 3 strong and distinctive brands: Peugeot, Citroën, and DS, each with its own identity, its own vehicle portfolio and commercial marketing. With 200 years of industrial history and such 3 world famous brands, PSA Group produces around 3M Vehicles (2.894.400 vehicles in 2014), focusing its main production in Europe (66,6%).

The FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) brings together leading national motoring organisations from 142 countries worldwide and is the governing body for world motor sport. The FIA Region I office, based in Brussels, is a consumer body representing 111 Motoring and Touring Clubs and their 38 million members from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  A key objective of the FIA is to promote user interests in mobility related European policy making as well as in European research and innovation. FIA Region I uses its know-how and network to raise awareness on issues related to road safety, affordability, environmental sustainability and efficient mobility.

The Swamp IOT Factory is a company established in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2014 for providing solutions to adapt traditional business to go the Internet of Things. Our mission is to democratize the Internet of Things to all type of consumers and businesses. SIOTF has built a platform for connected car services (BotCar) that allows to transform any kind of vehicle manufactured after 2003 in a Connected Car for less than 100€ of investment. With an MVP tested in real situations with the support of the FIWARE initiative, they are also part of the Delloitte Digital Disruptors Program where they are disrupting the insurance industry.

LITTLE is the first Spanish SME manufacturer of all-electric cars since 2004. This high-tech company is involved in all the stages of product development. Their efforts on continuous improvement have led to investigate innovative design, new materials and new devices for v2v, v2d and v2i connections, to be different from others and to develop new technologies that may allow to optimize the electric cars manufactured in LITTLE’s facilities in Spain.

Argus is the world’s largest, independent automotive cyber security company, whose customers are the major OEMs, Tier 1s, aftermarket connectivity providers and fleet managers. Led by a team of seasoned cyber-security experts and automotive veterans, Argus offers the most comprehensive, multi-layered and end-to-end protection suites in the industry. With the largest automotive cyber research division and twenty pending patents, Argus is well positioned to help its customers overcome the dynamic cyber security challenges posed by the connected car revolution. Argus is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and has a global presence with offices near all of the world’s major automotive centers including Michigan, Silicon Valley, Stuttgart and Tokyo.

HEVO has created an end-to-end solution that provides a safe, affordable, reliable, and seamless method of EV charging, built on the vision of creating the global standard for electric vehicle (EV) wireless charging and telematics. Ultimately, HEVO’s wireless charging hardware connects users to their vehicles via mobile software, such that charging an EV is as easy as tapping a screen.  With its disruptive wireless charging technology, HEVO has continued to secure projects and funding to advance efforts toward completing the company’s technology design and certification, expanding intellectual property (IP) portfolio, obtaining purchase orders, and commercializing offerings by the beginning of 2017.

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