The ASPIRE project (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications) develops and delivers a new middleware software solutions for RFIDs under open source and royalty free conditions. This new middleware paradigm will be particular beneficial to European SME, which are nowadays experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.

The network of excellence EuroFIR, funded under the EU FP6 'Food Quality and Safety Programme' acts in the field of food information and will therefore have importance for this project. The objective of the European Food Information Resource Project (EuroFIR) is to develop and integrate comprehensive, coherent and validated database providing a single, authoritative source of food composition data in Europe.

The main goal of RFID-ROI-SME is to boost the adoption of RFID technology by wide SME communities, while at thesame time creating business opportunities for innovative RFID solution providers within the EU. The aim is to demonstrate tangible benefits of RFID technology across many different sectors and business cases. These benefitswill then be disseminated to wider SME communities in the form of case studies, best practices and blueprints. To this end, the project will integrate, deploy organize and coordinate 8 RFID pilots in 6 European countries (including 1 international pilot) covering different sectors.

TRACE aims to improve the health and well-being of European citizens by delivering improved traceability of food products. It will provide consumers with added confidence in the authenticity of European food through complete traceability along entire fork to farm food chains. TRACE will develop cost effective analytical methods integrated within sector-specific and -generic traceability systems that will enable the determination and the objective verification of the origin of food. It will focus firstly on mineral water, cereals, honey,meat and chicken but will have wider applicability to other commodities.

The RACE (Raising Awareness and Competitiveness on RFID in Europe) network RFID initiative has been developed to raise awareness of Radio Frequency Identification across Europe through the establishment of a federating platform for all key European stakeholders in the development and use of RFID technology and applications. The objectives forRACE  have been developed from the needs identified by the ICT PSP for a thematic network for RFID, namely: creating a federating platform for all European Stakeholders in the development and usage of RFID, addressing the barriers to adoption and deployment as well as fragmentation in the market, providing a driving force for coordination, support and strengthening of the national bodies.