Integral Satcom Initiative


The Integral SatCom Initiative was an Information and Communications Technologies European Technology Platform led by the European SatCom industry and supported by the European Commission to address Satellite Communications strategic research and innovation challenges. It gathered approximately 200 member organisations representing all the stakeholders of the European SatCom sector from 29 different countries. It included members from manufacturing industry, network operations and service provision, SMEs, research centres and academia, European and National Institutions. Some international research entities do also participate. In 2013, after a public call by the European Commission to re-structure ETPs to better fit Horizon 2020 interests, ISI formally merged with Net!Works ETP to form NetWorld ETP, bringing together almost 1,000 partner organisations. NetWorld would become the partner ETP in the contractual public-private innovation partnership on 5G Infrastructures with the EU in December 2013.
The ISI European Technology Platform activities addressed in a unified way, all research, technology and innovation aspects related to satellite communications, including mobile, broadband, and broadcasting applications.

Objectives

ISI objectives are:
Activities within ISI are internally organized into the following Working Groups:
The ISI reference and working documents are publicly available on the . These include among others the