A European Commission-sponsored programme called the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative is providing the financing because it "identified Symbian as a unique technology that is a vital focus for European-centric mobile software development", according to the foundation's technology manager.
To secure the funding, Symbian formed an industry consortium called SYMBEOSE ("Symbian - the Embedded Operating System for Europe"), which lobbied to Artemis in September arguing that "20,000 jobs in Europe depend on Symbian" and that it would "combat mobile device and service homogeneity exemplified by Android and iOS".
The aim of the funding is "to preserve Symbian's position as the world leader in Operating Systems software development and set it on an industry-changing path to make it the focus for future European mobile technological development".
"The SYMBEOSE initiative will develop new core platform capabilities, providing the best possible levels of power efficiency and improving Symbian's current, market-leading offering in this area," the Foundation announced.
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