Information Society Technologies in the 6th Framework Programme IST Call 6

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Information Society Technologiesin the 6th
Framework ProgrammeIST Call 6

• SEE-INNOVATION PROJECT
• 2nd MENTORING WORKSHOP
• SOFIA
• 9th of February 2006

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IST Call 6

• IST Call 6 opened on 22nd December 2005 and
  closes on 25th April 2006 at 17h00 (Brussels
  time)
• Main evaluation mid- May, Hearings mid-June, ESRs
  end-June
• It covers 5 Strategic objectives and is funded at
  140 M in total
• Each Strategic objective is open to only a
  limited range of instruments IP, STREP, CA,
  SSA (no NoEs)
• Submission using the Electronic Proposal
  Submission System

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IST Call 6 Strategic objectives
2.6.1 Advanced robotics STP,CA, SSA 37M
2.6.2 Ambient Assisted Living IP 20M
STP, CA, SSA 20M 2.6.3 Search engines for
audio-visual content IP - 12 M STP, CA 18M
2.6.4 Accompanying actions supporting
participation CA, SSA 3M 2.6.5/1 Targeted
research actions Int. Coop. on Digital TV Latin
America STP, CA, SSA 5M Int. Coop. on
Digital TV China STP, CA, SSA
5M Int. Coop. on Grid Technologies China
STP, CA, SSA 5M Int. Coop. for eGovernment
W. Balkans STP, CA, SSA 5M Early warning
systems Tsunami STP, CA, SSA 5M 2.6.5/2
Coordination actions or Specific support actions
Strategic cooperation CA, SSA 5M
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IST Call 6 - Eligibility

• 1. Instrument restriction must be respected
• 2. Minimum consortium IP, STREP, CA proposals
• Two mutually-independent partners from EU or
  Candidate states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania,
  Turkey)
• A third partner as above, or from an Associated
  state (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway,
  Switzerland)
• Further partners from any country
• Third-country partners are funded if on the INCO
  target list
• 3. Minimum Consortium SSA proposals
• No restrictions may even be one participant from
  any country
• ! A one-partner SSA would be eligible. But
  would it be credible ?

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IST Call 6 Help

• Commission contact person for each objective open
  in call
• link from call page http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• A help desk for proposers questions
• ist_at_cec.eu.int tel [phone]
• A help desk for electronic submission problems
• support_at_epss-fp6.org tel [phone]
• Partner search facilities
• http//www.ideal-ist.net
• http//www.partners-service.cordis.lu/
• A network of National Contact Points
  http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ncps.htm

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2.6.1 Advanced robotics - Objectives

• Moving from specific industrial technology to a
  broad enabler of a wide range of products and
  services for the consumer, home entertainment
  markets
• Development of more intelligent, flexible,
  cost-effective, modular, safe, dependable,
  robust, user-driven robot systems
• massive introduction of robots in everyday human
  environments and their close co-operation with
  people
• extend the coupling of the world of information
  and communication with the world of physical
  interaction

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Advanced robotics - focus

• Multidisciplinary Research with focus on one or
  several of the themes
• Flexible robot systems
• Safe, robust and dependable robot systems
  operating in human environments and co-operating
  with people
• Networked and co-operating robots
• Advanced integrated modular robotics

STREPS

• Some starting points State-of-the-art in
  multi-modal knowledge acquisition, in reasoning
  and decision-making, evolution and learning,
  miniaturisation

• Prepare the emergence of a multidisciplinary
  research community in Europe
• Develop longer term visions and roadmaps
• Address organisational, legal, ethical and
  socio-economic challenges
• Standardisation activities for modular Robotics
• Benchmarking
• International co-operation

Support Actions
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Advanced robotics - information

• INFO DAY IN BRUSSELS (Feb 2006)
• Contacts
• Pekka Karp DG INFSO/F1 pekka.karp_at_cec.eu.int
• Franco Mastroddi DG INFSO/E5 franco.mastroddi_at_cec
  .eu.int
• Websites
• Advanced robotics on Cordis
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/so/advanced-robot
  ics/home.html
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/fet/home.html
• Cognition
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/cognition/index.h
  tml
• European Robotics Platform EUROP
• http//www.roboticsplatform.com/
• European Robotics Network EURON
• http//www.euron.org/

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2.6.2 ALL - ICT for an ageing society
Assisted
Active
Independent

• Support to Daily activities
• Increase independence and autonomy at home
• (Assistive technology, smart homes, warning
  systems, shopping facilities)
• Participation in society and mobility
• Communication, access to education, leisure,
• Integrated Care lt-gt Interoperability
• Healthcare
• Social care
• Informal care

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2.6.2 Proposal requirements
Total indicative budget 40 M IPs
50 Expected 2 4 projects STREPs, CAs,
SSAs 50 Coverage of call issues

• Respond to end-user needs
• Significant end-user interaction involvement in
  RD process
• Multidisciplinary projects teams
• Involvement of relevant public authorities
• Verification and testing of results
• Lead to cost-effective user-friendly solutions
• Holistic and Integrated solutions
• Stimulate business innovation and involve major
  industrial partners, including SMEs
• Clear Exploitation of outcomes

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2.6.2 ALL - IPs and STREPs
End-User centered solutions supporting
collaboration and integration between different
actors and services

• Focus 1
• Integration of advanced ICTs into working
  prototypes for assisted Living
• (Examples Context-aware smart products, systems
  and services for independent living)
• Focus 2
• Development of AAL systems reference
  architectures allowing for seamless integration
  of devices, sub-systems and services
• (Examples System interoperability and
  management, contribution to standards, service
  engineering, privacy protection.)

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2.6.2. ALL - SSAs and CAs

• Specific Support Actions
• Legal Regulatory,
• Ethical
• Psychological
• Socio economic
• Organisational
• Financial
• Coordination actions
• bridging different constituencies
• support to clustering
• coordination between projects
• international cooperation

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2.6.3 Search Engines for Audio Visual Content

• Objectives
• To provide advanced solutions for organising,
  searching and accessing large-scale, distributed
  digital audio-visual content and objects.
• Support will be given to projects that
  significantly advance research capabilities
  and/or consolidate existing research work and
  identify future orientations in the field.
• Proposed actions should have a federating effect
  on on-going work within relevant national
  initiatives for on-line access to digital
  content.

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2.6.3. Search Engines for Audio Visual Content

• Focus
• Technologies to support the process of
  representing and interpreting, navigating and
  retrieving audio-visual content and other types
  of digital objects. Particular aspects to be
  considered include heterogeneous data fusion,
  optimised system integration and where applicable
  P2P technologies.
• Methods and tools aimed at higher levels of
  information harvesting, including automated
  knowledge discovery and extraction, annotation
  and summarisation, indexing and retrieval of all
  types of digital content (text, image, video,
  audio, 3D graphical objects etc.), including
  protected content.
• Systems for adaptive search by content and/or
  context to be tested in realistic everyday life
  settings, based on relevance feedback including
  socially-derived relevance. This should encompass
  the integration and testing of search from a
  variety of sources based on mixed-media queries
  and the delivery of different media types on a
  variety of devices (including mobile terminals).

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2.6.3 System aspects

• Emphasis should be placed on future user and
  service search requirements and on ubiquitous
  access, be it from a fixed or mobile networks,
  hiding complexity, as well as handling context
  and geographical awareness in multiple
  environments (e.g. local, corporate, open
  Internet).
• Work should be placed in a systems context with a
  clear industrial exploitation drive. Solutions
  should be validated with targeted applications in
  critical sectors, using large scale heterogeneous
  and networked audio-visual information
  repositories.

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2.6.3 Call Information

• Instruments
• IPs, STREPs, CAs
• Indicative budget
• 30 M IPs 40 STREPs, CAs 60
• Minimum number of participants
• Three independent legal entities from three
  different MS or AS, with at least two MS or ACC.
• EC Contact Persons
• Loretta Anania (loretta.anania_at_cec.eu.int)
• Bernard Barani (bernard.barani_at_cec.eu.int)
• Kai Tullius (kai.tullius_at_cec.eu.int)

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2.6.4 Accompanying actions in support of
participation in Community ICT

• Proposals requirements
• Indicative budget 3 M
• Experienced support projects with critical mass
• CAs, SSAs
• The objective is to stimulate, encourage and
  facilitate the participation in current and
  future Community ICT research.
• Bridge between the 6 and 7 FWP
• Special focus on newcomers and SMEs, NMS,
  ACC.
• Targeted also on INCO countries.

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Strategic Objective 2.6.5 International
Cooperation

• General objectives
• To establish privileged partnerships with
  selected countries or regions
• To contribute to the stability and prosperity of
  regions neighboring the EU
• To address global environmental issues
• To prepare for future partnerships with the
  target regions
• ! Proposals shall leverage and integrate existing
  initiatives in the focal areas in Europe and the
  target countries

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Strategic Objective 2.6.5/1 Targeted research
actions

• 2.6.5/1 International Cooperation on Digital TV
  Broadcasting Interactive Applications
• Target region Latin America
• Indicative budget 5 M
• STREPs, SSAs, CAs
• Infoday Sao Paulo, 2nd February 2006To be
  confirmed
• 2.6.5/1 International Cooperation on Digital
  Broadcasting / Mobile Convergence
• Target country China
• Indicative budget 5 M
• STREPs, SSAs, CAs
• Infoday Beijing, 23 February 2006To be confirmed
  
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/audiovisual

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International Cooperation on Digital TV
Broadcasting Interactive Applications

• To establish privileged partnerships opening
  opportunities for the joint development of
  digital broadcasting technologies and associated
  interactive applications and services
• To support the emergence of added-value services,
  their faster development in the target region and
  their interoperability with EU developed
  solutions
• To prepare for future, wider and more concrete
  partnerships in RTD
• Topics to address
• Open API and middleware issues
• Interactive applications with strong focus on
  eLearning, eHealth eGovernment
• Considering live trials in order to validate the
  technical approaches
• Contact person

• Demosthenes Ikonomou Demosthenes.Ikonomou_at_cec.eu
  .int
• European Commission Fax [phone]
• Brussels, Belgium

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International Cooperation on Digital Broadcasting
/ Mobile Convergence

• To establish privileged partnerships opening
  opportunities for the joint development of
  digital broadcasting technologies and their
  convergence with mobile communications
• To support the emergence of added-value converged
  technologies, their faster development in the
  target region and their interoperability with EU
  developed solutions
• Topics to address
• Open API and middleware issues
• Scalable video coding and lightweight
  representation and content aggregation
  technologies
• Considering live trials in order to validate the
  technical approaches
• Contact person
• Jean-François Buggenhout Phone [phone]
• European Commission Fax [phone]
• Brussels, Belgium
• jean-francois.buggenhout_at_cec.eu.int

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2.6.5/1 Grid Technologies Target Country China

• Target country China
• Indicative budget 5 M
• STREPs, SSAs, CAs
• Infoday 22nd February in Shanghai
• Objectives of the Call
• to develop strategic partnerships building on
  common priority areas
• to explore new collaboration opportunities for
  the take-up of Grid-enabled applications by
  end-users
• promoting common developments of standards and
  building joint virtual laboratories involving
  research and industry

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WP 2005-2006International Cooperation on Grid
TechnologiesRESEARCH FOCUS
IST Call 6Indicative Budget 5M
e-bus, e-health, e-goy, e-learning Environment,
Application
Sector 1
Application
Application
Sector 3
Sector 2
Application
Sector n
International Cooperation on Grid Technologies
Grid Foundations Architecture, design and
development of technologies and systems for the
Grid
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2.6.5/1 Grid Technologies Target Country China

• Complements the main Grid research activities in
  previous calls, now from an international
  co-operation perspective
• Addresses both research developments and business
  / industrial applications
• Proposals shall link existing initiatives in the
  EU and China
• To establish a long-term co-operation framework
  with the target country
• Contact person
• Annalisa Bogliolo
• Grid Technologies Unit
• European Commission
• annalisa.bogliolo_at_cec.eu.int
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

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2.6.5/1 International cooperation for eGovernment
and eParticipation Target countries Western
Balkans

• This call complements the on-going research in
  eGovernment and eDemocracy http//europa.eu.int/
  egovernment_research
• Objective
• To address key issues across the region, such as
• - improved public services,- institutional
  reinforcement,- decision making- democratic
  processes
• Public services of high impact may include-
  eCustoms- eJustice
• - ePublic Procurement- eDemocracy -
  eParticipation
• Cooperation within the W. Balkan region as well
  as with the EU is supported

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2.6.5/1 International cooperation for eGovernment
and eParticipation Target countries Western
Balkans

• Instruments STREPs, SSAs, CAs
• Balanced partnerships among
• W. Balkan and EU partners ICT research
  organisations (industry, academia) and users
  (e.g. public administrations)
• Multidisciplinary research in STREPs
  technological, organisational, institutional,
  legal, etc
• SSAs, CAs well focused proposals with tangible
  results and benefits

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2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical
hazards

• Target countries Mediterranean partner
  countries, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri-Lanka,
  Japan, USA, Canada, New-Zealand.
• The aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate
  advanced systems and services to manage
  geo-physical risks, with a focus on developing an
  early warning and alert capacity for improved
  disaster prevention and preparedness in coastal
  zones. The objective is to establish operational
  prototypes for tsunami detection, early warning
  and alert relevant to the main tsunami-prone
  regions in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and
  Indian Ocean.

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2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical
hazards

• Additional support measures include
• technology transfer between EU and tsunami-prone
  countries and regions bordering the Indian Ocean,
  for sharing best practice, promoting standards
  and adapting these to local needs and conditions
• Collaboration with specialised institutes in
  countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea with
  the aim of promoting a harmonised approach to
  tsunami early warning and alert for the
  Mediterranean basin.
• ?Instruments STREPs, SSAs and CAs
• ?Indicative budget 5 M

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2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical
hazards

• Web site
• http//fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseactionUserSit
  e.FP6DetailsCallPagecall_id271
• Info Day
• 31st January 2006, hosted by UNESCO-IOC, Paris
• Contact
• Dr. Karen Fabbri (karen.fabbri_at_cec.eu.int)
• DG Information Society and Media, European
  Commission

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2.6.5/2 INCO - CA or SSA

• identifying partner countries, common needs and
  opportunities for deeper strategic RD
  co-operation between EU and selected
  regionsthrough
• dialogue with broad communities
• awareness raising measures
• Indicative Budget 5 M

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2.6.5/2 INCO - CA or SSA

• Each proposal expected to
• Contribute to the formulation of a global
  strategy for future initiatives
• Focus on well-identified region
• Cover all technologies relevant to co-operation
• Include partners from region addressed
• Yield results within 12-18 months
• Be based on local needs and/or opportunities best
  addressed jointly
• Emphasis on emerging, developing, neighbourhood
  countries