Seif Haridi, Chief Scientific Advisor at SICS, leads the ‘Computing in the Cloud’ action line at the European Institute of Innovation & Technology’s ICT Labs. SICS is also one of the main partners in the Europa project, one of four activities within the ‘Computing in Cloud’ action line.

The Euro-India SPIRIT project published its final recommendations booklet "The New Digital Paradigm - Harnessing EU-India ICT Cooperation". The project's aim was, in brief, to examine the state of the art in Indian ICT and develop a set of recommendations for a mutually beneficial research agenda between the EU and India.

The first Fraunhofer Project Center (FPC) in Brazil had its opening ceremony on 9 March 2012 in Salvador, Bahia. The center is located in the Technological Park of Bahia, which hosts companies such as IBM, Portugal Telecom Innovation, and several big Brazilian companies.