About Celtic
Celtic is a European research and development programme, established as Eureka cluster, to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness in telecommunications through short and medium term collaborative R&D projects. Celtic is currently the only European R&D programme fully dedicated to end-to-end telecommunication solutions. Launched in November 2003, Celtic (Cooperation for a sustained European Leadership in Telecommunications) was founded and has been supported by major European telecommunication players, both vendors and operators. Celtic fills the gap between public R&D programmes not specifically focused on telecoms and short-term R&D efforts by the telecoms industry
- Timeframe: 8 years, from 2004 to 2011
- Total budget: in the range of 1 billion euro, shared between governments and private participants.
Participants: companies from the telecommunications industry (small, medium and large), universities, research institutes, and local authorities from all 35 Eureka countries may participate in Celtic projects.
Celtic Office
c/o Eurescom, Wieblinger Weg 19/4,
69123 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49 6221 989 405, e-mail: office@celtic-initiative.org