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MOBILE INNOVATION CENTRE

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Today 3G mobile telecommunication systems supporting multimedia services are built in several European countries, but international researches already deal with the theoretical and practical questions of B3G and 4G systems. Researches concerning mobile and wireless telecommunication and information systems and services have an essential role in R&D programs of the European Union and in the supporting system of scientific researches of the United States, as well.

One of the biggest challenges of the new generation of the mobile and wireless systems is the integration and interoperability of different technologies. The future telecommunication systems will be user-centred grouping their services around the user, implementing their applications to the complete satisfaction of the user, and for this reason, open and flexible networks are built.

The MOBILE INNOVATION CENTRE (MIK) was founded as a result of the call for proposals "The Establishment of R&D and Innovation Centre for Mobile Communication" supported by the National Office for Research and Technology. The Centre is based on the cooperation of universities, an academic research institution, industrial companies, suppliers and organisations dealing with scientific research and innovation, including the representatives of profit-oriented and non-profit sectors.

Similar technological centres can only be found in a few advanced countries. The MIK is a consortial partnership founded by 17 consortial partners (listed on the backside). The Mobile Innovation Centre was established to solve the scientific and technological questions which contribute to the clearing up of the problems existing in future mobile and wireless systems, to the implementation of 3G services and to the introduction of later mobile and wireless communication technologies and to the development of the up-to-date applications on the systems. Furthermore, its aim is to draw in small and medium sized enterprises into the above-mentioned topics.

The Mobile Innovation Centre operates on its centralized site and on its virtual sites. The centralized part of the MIK is formed in the "Z" building of Budapest University of Technology and Economics with a test-bed, administrative and service units. The mission of the Mobile Innovation Centre starting with a unique professional profile and an up-to-date communication environment and a testing system for improving and testing the latest mobile and wireless applications consists of the following essential elements and will be enlarged and modified according to the fast changing trends and research results:

1. Supporting the research and development of high-speed mobile and wireless technologies, including the B3G technological trends following the 3G mobile systems.
2. Promoting the implementation of 3G/4G mobile and wireless technologies and network services and the systems and applications based on these technologies and testing them in an independent environment.
3. Encouraging the establishment, development and practical use of the latest mobile and wireless technologies/services.
4. Supporting the tough cooperation of universities, industrial companies and small and medium size enterprises, and supporting small and medium sized enterprises established for the development of mobile and wireless technologies and services.

The Mobile Innovation Centre will actively participate in the research and development programs initiated by the European Union, increases its own incomings from domestic and international financial resources and maintains itself from its own products, services, applications and research and development contracts. Besides the research purposes, the formed testing system will be accessible for the domestic partner companies producing, distributing telecommunication devices and developing telecommunication services for whom, it will be able to make tests without investing into their own testing system. The Mobile Innovation Centre aims to build new international relationships, join the research programs of the European Union, promote the change of researchers, draw in students and PhD degree-holders, and make its relationships with the project-partners fruitful.

In the long term, the Mobile Innovation Centre strives for becoming the regional research and development centre of Hungary, and encourages the settlement of international high-tech companies and their capital investment in Hungary, contributing to the general raising of the technological level of the country, the creation of new workplaces and this way to the economic development of the country.