In 1992, the CEC agreed to finance a one-year project called Piloting of Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (MICE). The project is now in Phase II, which will last throughout 1994. UCL (University College London) is the coordinating partner, and the consortium consists of:
Phase I of the MICE project had three overlapping phases: definition, trial and evaluation. During the definition phase, a multimedia conferencing reference architecture has been defined, and facilities required in conference rooms, conferencing workstations and the Conference Multiplexing and Management Centre (CMMC) at UCL have been specified.
During the trial phase, the facilities of all three areas have been continuously improved, and multiway interworking between the partners, and sites in the US, has been demonstrated successfully in public events at the following conferences:
In addition, the MICE project started in October 1993, on an experimental basis, an International Seminar Series on Multimedia, Communications and Networks, Distributed Systems and CSCW, with UCL and the SICS as the main transmitting sites.
In Phase II MICE plans to hold further international events in 1994. These events aim to promote the deployment of MICE technology, which facilitates international events between user groups. Groups from other disciplines (such surgeons and physicists) will be invited to take part in MICE events. The first batch of European National Support Centres will be formed in Phase II, and new centres will be added in throughout 1994.
Elsewhere you should contact your local national support centre. Several are listed in If you are based in country not listed there, please contact the UK MICE NSC.