Dear Marlena,

Thank you for your interest in FIWARE.

Now, answering your questions, currently you have different ways to collaborate with FIWARE, and yes academic institutes could be part of the ecosystem once we have settled up the Open Source community which will be launched soon.

Do you mean participation in FIWARE or participation in the acceleration program?

If you mean to FIWARE we are open to receive inputs soon as the OS community is launched, and for the accelerators only SMEs can apply.

Now for SMEs the participation is detailed as follows:

The acceleration programme offers the chance to submit innovative proposals based on FIWARE that could avail of our technology and create applications that generate new businesses or improve the efficiency of the existing ones. This is focused on SMEs and entrepreneurs. For more info, visit our webpage http://www.fiware.org / particularly the acceleration programme http://www.fiware.org/fiware-accelerator-programme / Many of the calls have already closed but some others are still open: http://www.fi-ppp.eu/fi-ppp-phase-3-projects-and-their-calls-for-smes/
You don’t need to move to the country where accelerators are.

Also one could participate in our Hackatons, check often the info on our website for upcoming dates: http://www.fiware.org/category/hackathons /

The use of the GEs are open and free. You can check it here: FIWARE GEs http://catalogue.fiware.org/

Also check the wiki for all further questions and usage:
http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE_Frequently_Asked_Questions_%28FAQ%29#About_the_FIWARE_Programme

Also, here you have examples of success applications developed with FIWARE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR9elAI9JscQuZpRe69y4DxE7KKr34UjM

Please let me know if you have any further question.

Best regards,

Malena

Dear Marlena,

Thank you for your interest in FIWARE.

Now, answering your questions, currently you have different ways to collaborate with FIWARE, and yes academic institutes could be part of the ecosystem once we have settled up the Open Source community which will be launched soon.

Do you mean participation in FIWARE or participation in the acceleration program?

If you mean to FIWARE we are open to receive inputs soon as the OS community is launched, and for the accelerators only SMEs can apply.

Now for SMEs the participation is detailed as follows:

The acceleration programme offers the chance to submit innovative proposals based on FIWARE that could avail of our technology and create applications that generate new businesses or improve the efficiency of the existing ones. This is focused on SMEs and entrepreneurs. For more info, visit our webpage http://www.fiware.org / particularly the acceleration programme http://www.fiware.org/fiware-accelerator-programme / Many of the calls have already closed but some others are still open: http://www.fi-ppp.eu/fi-ppp-phase-3-projects-and-their-calls-for-smes/
You don’t need to move to the country where accelerators are.

Also one could participate in our Hackatons, check often the info on our website for upcoming dates: http://www.fiware.org/category/hackathons /

The use of the GEs are open and free. You can check it here: FIWARE GEs http://catalogue.fiware.org/

Also check the wiki for all further questions and usage:
http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE_Frequently_Asked_Questions_%28FAQ%29#About_the_FIWARE_Programme

Also, here you have examples of success applications developed with FIWARE
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR9elAI9JscQuZpRe69y4DxE7KKr34UjM

Please let me know if you have any further question.

Best regards,

Malena