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Information and Communication Technologies in
FP7 Priorities for 2009-10
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Outline

• Where do we stand?
• WP 09-10 main principles
• Approach
• Some important features
• 7 Challenges and FET
• Accompanying measures
• Strengthening cooperation in an enlarged Europe
• International cooperation
• Calls overview
• The WP is still a draft awaiting Commission
  decision

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Where do we stand?

• Behind us
• Three main Calls ( FET Open Joint Call Sec)
  for proposals in 2007-08
• 2.1 B of EU funding,
• Around 500 projects launched or to be launched (
  out of 3000 proposals received)
• Launch of the first Calls of two Joint Technology
  Initiatives (JTI) and Ambient Assisted Living
  Joint Programme (AAL) (120 M)
• Ahead of us
• WP 2009-10, 1.9 B funding
• JTIs 190 M funding
• AAL around 50 M funding

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WP 2009-10 Main principles

• Projects launched in 2009-10 to have impact
• in 2015-20
• By then, global ICT/knowledge infrastructure
  market structures - value chains - business
  models all will be completely transformed
• Research challenges should
• Encourage firms to explore more innovative
  options than they would otherwise pursue
• Focus on higher-risk ICT collaborative research
  in a medium to long-term agenda

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Positioning of the Programme
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Enabling Europe to shape and master the 2015-20
ICT landscape

• Three major technology and socio-economic
  transformations that Europe can and should lead
• Future Internet (FI)
• Alternative paths to ICT components and systems
• ICT for sustainable development
• In addition, main mid-to-long term drivers for
  ICT research priorities remain valid
• more for less - more functionality and
  performance at lower cost
• scalability, adaptability and learning
  capabilities of ICT systems
• reliability and security
• higher volumes and more complex digital content
  and services
• innovation from the use of ICT in ever more
  challenging applications

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Approach Maintain the structure and Challenges

• Continuity
• of structure and challenges
• of instruments funding schemes
• Addressing the new transformations
• through adaptations
• of challenges
• through different weight between activities

• Continue to focus on the identified limited set
  of Challenges and the FET scheme
• Address Challenges through a limited set of
  objectives
• Indicate the set of outcomes targeted by the
  research work and their expected impact
• Revise focus of the challenges and the set of
  objectives

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ICT in FP7 7 Challenges FET
Socio-economic goals
4. Digital libraries and content
5. ICT for health
6. ICT for mobility sustainable growth
7. ICT for independent living and
inclusion
1. Network and service infrastructures
2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Industry/Tech needs
3. Components, systems, engineering
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Addressing synergies throughout the Programme

• Breakthroughs from cross-overs and convergence of
  technologies and disciplines
• Innovations from the use of ICT in demanding
  application contexts
• Technology-led challenges removing roadblocks
  and improving the capability of generic
  technology components, systems and
  infrastructures
• Application-led challenges new systems, products
  and services that provide step-changes in the
  capabilities of the resulting application solution

Example Internet of Things
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Other important features

• Involving SMEs and feeding innovation
• finance high-risk, early-stage research and
  development
• build strategic partnerships and operate outside
  local markets
• -gt aim is to ensure that SMEs constitute an
  important part of the ICT research consortia
• Contributing to European and global standards
• contribution and active support to industrial
  consensus eventually leading to standards is
  strongly encouraged
• Encouraging the use of IPV6
• research projects facing a choice of computer
  network protocol are encouraged to utilise IPv6
• Bringing the user in research cycles
• discovering new and emerging behaviours and use
  patterns
• assessing at an early stage the socio-economic
  implications of new technological solutions
• -gt Proposers are encouraged to apply user-driven
  OI methodologies
• Future Internet experimental facility in
  Challenge 1
• challenge 7
• other challenges driven by socio-economic goals

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Funding schemes

• Collaborative projects (CP)
• 'small or medium-scale focused research actions'
  (STREP) specific research objective in a sharply
  focused approach
• 'large-scale integrating projects' (IP)
  comprehensive 'programme' approach / include a
  coherent and integrated set of activities dealing
  with multiple issues
• Both instruments play an important and
  complementary role
• Objective is to support a balanced portfolio
• focused and agile scientific and technological
  exploration through STREPs
• concentration of efforts - where needed - through
  IPs
• Indicative budget distribution per instrument
  specified for each objective
• Overall aim is to ensure that about half of the
  support for Collaborative Projects is delivered
  through IPs and about half through STREPS

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Challenge 1 Future Internet as a federating
research theme
Challenge
Approach

• Making the Internet
• mobile/broadband
• manageable/scalable/QoS/QoE
• secure, and trustworthy
• 3D enabled
• Virtualised resource, ad-hoc application design
• Enabling novel applications (RFID/sensor based)
• Social Internet, Net is the database, search
• Understand Internet behaviours (federated
  testbeds)
• Standards, International Co-operation..

• Developing the technological and architectural
  foundations of the FI
• Further building the Future Internet Assembly
• Support to reinforced co-operation with EU
  national initiatives
• International co-operation with regions having
  FI initiatives
• Leveraging EU assets, industrial drive

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Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service
Infrastructures
Call 5 37 MEuro gt2IPs/ STREP/CSA
Call 4 80 M IP/STREP/ NoE/CSA
Call 5 50 MEuro IP/STREP /CSA
Call 5 90 M IP/STREP /NoE/CSA
Call 5 110 MEuro IP/STREP /CSA
Call 5 80 MEuro IP/STREP /NoE/CSA
Call 4 110 M IP/STREP
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Target outcomes (I)

• The Network of the Future (IP/ Strep)
• Call 4
• Spectrum-efficient radio access to Future
  Networks
• next-generation mobile radio technologies
• cognitive radio and network technologies
• novel radio network
• Converged infrastructures in support of Future
  Networks
• ultra high capacity optical transport networks
• converged service capability across heterogeneous
  access
• Call 5
• Future Internet Architectures and Network
  Technologies
• novel Internet architectures and technologies
• flexible and cognitive network management
• Coordination/ Support actions and Networks of
  Excellence (NoE, CSA)

• Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation
• (IP / Strep)
• Service Architectures and Platforms for the
  Future Internet
• service front ends
• open, scalable, dependable service platforms
• virtualised infrastructures
• Innovative Service / Software Engineering
• service / Software engineering methods and tools
• verification and validation
• Coordination and support actions (CSA)

• Internet of Things and Enterprise environments
• (gt 2 IPs / Strep)
• Architectures and technologies for an Internet of
  Things
• architectures and technologies using open
  protocols, which enable novel Internet-based
  applications
• optimised technologies covering distribution of
  intelligence
• architectural models
• Future-Internet based enterprise systems
• software platforms
• interoperability
• dynamic ecosystems
• International co-operation and co-ordination (CSA)

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Target outcomes (II)

• Networked Media
• and 3D Internet
• Content aware networks and network aware
  applications (IP/Strep)
• networking and delivery of multimedia content and
  services
• video coding, multi view point coding, 3D coding
• 3D Media Internet (IP/ Str/NoE)
• technologies for 3D content representation
• commercial or social applications, beyond games
• Networked search and retrieval (IP/ Strep)
• heterogeneous information sources
• including physical world event information
• search capabilities across distributed media
  systems and P2P networks
• Immersive media experiences (IP/ Strep/NoE)
• higher frame rates, wider colour gamut, higher
  contrast, higher resolution, 3D capabilities,
  immersive environments
• optimised end-to-end architectures

• Trustworthy ICT
• Trustworthy Network Infrastructures (IP)
• novel architectures with built-in security /
  dependability / privacy
• trustworthy management of billions of networked
  devices
• Trustworthy Service Infrastructures (IP)
• adaptability, interoperability, scalability and
  dynamic composition of services
• identity management for persons, tangible objects
  and virtual entities
• Technology and Tools for Trustworthy ICT (Strep)
• Understanding threat patterns for pro-active
  protection
• user-centric and privacy preserving identity
  management
• management and assurance of security, integrity
  and availability
• assurance and assessment of trustworthiness
• Networking, Coordination and Support (NoE, CSA)

• FI experimental facility and experimentally-driven
  research
• Building the Experimental Facility and
  stimulating its use (IP)
• prototype of the FIRE experimental facility
• 'open coordinated federation of testbeds'
• large scale experimentation
• direct involvement of user communities
• 1/ FIRE Components
• operational prototype facility
• 2/ FIRE Users
• open calls results must be of mutual interest
• Experimentally-driven Research (Strep)
• iterative cycles of research, design and
  large-scale experimentation
• Future Internet as a complex system (holistic
  vision)
• definition of relevant metrics
• taking into account energy, low cost,
  environmental or socio-economic aspects
• Coordination actions (CSA)

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Challenge 1 and Future Internet
NETWORK
SERVICES
ENTREPRISE
MEDIA A/V
Beyond HDTV and e_Cinema
Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Management, B3G..
Content aware Nets, Net aware Apps.
Service, Software Engineering
Converged and Optical Networks
Future Entreprise
Networked Search
Future Internet Service architectures and
Platforms
Future Internet Architectures and Technologies
Internet of Things
3D and Media Internet
Experimental Facilities Experimentally Driven
research
Trustworthy Networks Trustworthy Services
Tools and technologies for Trust
Trust/Security/dependability
TESTBEDS
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Challenge 2Cognitive Systems, Interaction,
Robotics
Today
5 15 years

• Robots operating in modelled, structured and
  constrained environments
• industrial robots /programmed service robots
• Basic understanding of computational
  representations of cognitive processes
• first applications in cognitive vision
• Human-robot interactions rather static / passive
  
• unable to adapt to human behaviours, critical
  safety issues unresolved
• Machine translation
• cross-lingual access to information making sense
  of the online maze
• enhanced productivity of human translation (by
  15-30)
• Automatic translation of acceptable quality in
  limited domains / language pairs
• Content / workflow management
• combination of MT and Translation Memory,
  automating repetitive translations
• management of multilingual web sites

• Robots, machines and systems exhibiting advanced
  behaviour
• operating with gaps in knowledge in dynamic /
  frequently changing environments
• Machines and systems that understand their users
  / context
• learning from observation/ adapting to context
• Robotic systems with rich interaction
  capabilities
• all senses, gestures, natural language for safe
  human-robot collaboration
• Self-learning machine translation
• Filling in gaps in language coverage
• No human supervision / Autonomous learning
• Progressive independence from topic and language
  pair
• Multilingual Web paradigm
• Automated versioning and management of
  multilingual web sites

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2 Objectives ICT-2009.2.1/2
73M
Call 4
2.1 Cognitive Systems and Robotics IP, Strep,
NoE, CA
Call 6
80M
26M
Call 4

• 2.2 Language-Based Interaction
• One IP in addition to Strep, NoE

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Target outcomes

• Cognitive Systems and Robotics (Call 4)
• Endowing robots with advanced perception and
  action capabilities, bench-marks and tests
  (STREP)
• Scientifically grounded system architectures
  integrating communication, control, and cognitive
  capabilities (IP)
• Integration of diverse research areas to
  understand and design cognitive systems (NoE)
• Coordination of robotics community (CA)

• Language-based interaction
• Core research (one IP)
• multi-disciplinary approaches
• architectures technologies that can learn and
  adapt to different languages, domains tasks
• Selected challenges in a usage context (STREP)
• online translation for the masses
• translation in distributed collaborative
  environments
• managing multilingual content communication
• acquisition annotation of language resources
• Community building networking (1 or 2 NoEs)

Cognitive Systems and Robotics (Call
6) Engineering of artificial cognitive systems
(STREP) Complete robotic systems that operate
autonomously in loosely structured dynamic
environments (IP) Facilitate cross-fertilisation
between academic and industrial research efforts
in robotics (IP) Coordination of artificial
cognitive systems research community (CA)
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Challenge 3 Components, systems, engineering
Trends, challenges opportunities
Expected Impact

• Trends in miniaturisation, diversification,
  increasing SW content and emphasis on systems
  approach remain valid
• Challenges
• Multi-disciplinarity
• Integrated SW/HW systems
• Heterogeneous micro-systems
• Widely distributed systems
• Cross cutting issues
• Efficient energy management
• Minimising environmental footprint of
  manufacturing
• New opportunities - New types of devices and
  intelligent systems
• Nano-scale integration, new materials
• Photonics and organic electronics
• Quantum and molecular technologies
• Embedded ICT in ever broader range of devices,
  objects and processes

• Exploration of alternative paths and fostering
  of new types of collaborations
• Reinforced EU knowledge and skills
• Increased critical mass of resources and
  knowledge
• More international cooperation
• Higher attractiveness of EU to investments
• Closer cooperation between Member States
• Maintained leading position of EU in product
  innovation and design
• Wider use of smart systems in various
  application sectors
• Higher energy efficiency and reduction of waste
  in manufacturing
• Contribution to evolution of traditional
  industries (printing, clothing)
• Emergence and growth of new companies
• Strengthened competitiveness of EU industry
  through risk sharing

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9 Objectives ICT-2009.3.1 to 9
CSA
35M
Call 5
3.1 Nanoelectronics Technology gt 1 IP/Strep/NoE
25M
Call 4
3.2 Design of SC components gt 1 IP/Strep
60M
Call 4
3.3 Flexible, organic and large area electronics
IP/Strep/NoE
28M
Call 4
3.4 Embedded Systems Design 2 IPs/Strep
32M
Coordination, roadmaps and networking
Call 5
3.5 Engineering of control systems 2
IPs/Strep/NoE
25M
Call 4
3.6 Computing systems Strep
60M
ERANet -gtCall 4
Call 5
3.7 Photonics IP/Strep/EraNet(10M)
30M
Call 4
3.8 Organic photonics Strep/NoE
80M
Call 5
3.9 Microsystems and smartsystems IP/Strep
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Target outcomes (I)

• Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics
• (IP/ Strep)
• Flexible, organic and large area electronic
  devices and building blocks
• processes and materials for the fabrication of
  organic (combination with inorganic) flexible
  heterogeneous large-area devices
• Flexible or foil-based systems
• homogeneous process integration of different
  functionalities
• heterogeneous component integration
• combination with flexible / stretchable / textile
  substrates
• interconnects to thin film discrete devices and
  thinned ICs
• device demonstrators (e.g. e-paper, e-cards)
• Network of Excellence (NoE)
• Structuring / Training / Coordination /
  Standardisation
• Support measures (CSA)
• International collaboration / Coordination /
  Access to prototyping and design competences
  /Training for SMEs

• Design of Semiconductor Components and Electronic
  Based Miniaturised Systems
• Improved design platforms, interfaces, methods
  and tools
• energy efficient electronic systems
• thermal effect aware design
• heterogeneous functions
• enable the efficient realisation of very complex
  circuits, first time right
• gt one IP design platforms and modelling
• Strep specific tools, methods or targeting
  specific needs
• Support measures (CSA)
• dissemination, training, education and access
• networked centres of excellence and design
  infrastructure
• international cooperation (Russia, India)
• Activity is complementary to the activities in
  the ENIAC JTI

• Nanoelectronics Technology
• Miniaturisation and functionalisation
• Beyond 22 nm devices (Strep)
• Merging of 'Beyond CMOS' and advanced 'More than
  Moore' devices and processes (NoE)
• Manufacturing technologies
• (gt1 IP Strep)
• New semiconductor manufacturing approaches,
  processes and tools
• Joint assessments of novel process/metrology
  equipment and materials
• Supporting 200/300 mm wafer integration platforms
• Preparatory work for 450 mm wafer processing
• Support measures (CSA)
• Roadmaps benchmarks
• Access for academia and research institutes to
  affordable silicon
• Stimulation of electronics careers
• International cooperation, in particular with the
  USA, Russia, Taiwan and Japan

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Target outcomes (II)

• Embedded Systems Design
• Theory and novel methods for embedded system
  design
• heterogeneity, predictability of non-functional
  properties (performance, fault tolerance, life
  expectancy and power consumption)
• robustness validation
• adaptivity and self-awareness
• self-configuration
• one IP end-to-end design methodologies and
  associated tool chains
• STREP specific methods and tools
• Modules and tools for embedded platform-based
  design
• integrated design environment for ES
• software, HW/SW and system design tools
• interoperability of tools primarily from SME
  vendors
• technology for efficient resource management
• one IP address design tool integration
• STREP specific issues or topics

• Computing Systems
• (Strep)
• Parallelisation programmability
• automatic parallelisation
• high-level parallel programming languages
• holistic approach underlying hardware /
  operating system / system software
• exploiting dynamic (run-time) information
• testing, verification and debugging
• Methodologies, techniques and tools
• Continuous Adaptation
• beyond strict separation between compiler,
  runtime and hardware
• Virtualisation
• portability, flexibility, optimised use of
  resources
• Customisationrapid extension and/or
  configuration of existing systems
• System simulation and analysis
• Simulation and analysis of complex multicore
  systems

• Engineering of Networked Monitoring and Control
  systems
• Foundations of complex systems engineering
  (Strep, NoE)
• robust, predictable and self-adaptive behaviour
  for large-scale networked systems
• foundational multi-disciplinary research
• Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects
• support spontaneous ad-hoc cooperation between
  objects
• experimenting large-scale applications of
  wireless sensor networks
• one IP architectures and integration platforms
• STREP specific issues or topics
• Control of large-scale systems
• scalable and modular architectures and platforms
• Standardisation is encouraged
• one IP architect, develop and demonstrate
  process automation systems
• STREP specific issues or topics

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Target outcomes (III)

• Photonics
• Photonics technologies, components and
  (sub)systems
• Communications future-proof networks and systems
  (IP/Strep)
• Lighting and light sources LEDs /LED-based
  lighting / laser sources (IP/Strep)
• Biophotonics molecular imaging / point of care
  diagnosis (Strep)
• Imaging for Safety Security image sensors /
  imaging systems (Strep)
• Integrated components for power lasers (Strep)
• Cost-effective versatile foundry processes for
  photonic integrated components (IP)
• based on widely agreed concepts and standards
• ERA-NET Plus action
• joint call for proposals with MSs
• Coordination and support actions (CSA)
• 1/ SME and researchers support
• access to expertise, prototypes and facilities
• 2/ International cooperation

• Microsystems and Smart Miniaturised Systems
• Heterogeneous Integration (IP/Strep)
• next generation of microsystems and smart
  miniaturised systems
• innovative concepts of industrial relevance
• heterogeneous combination to integrate higher
  levels of intelligence (multisensing, processing,
  wireless and wired communication, actuation)
• Autonomous energy efficient smart systems (Strep)
• make use of efficient energy management and
  communication
• energy scavenging / power generation
• Application-specific microsystems and smart
  miniaturised systems (IP/Strep)
• Biomedical
• Telecommunications
• Environment and food/beverage
• Transport, safety and security
• Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textiles
• A balanced coverage is foreseen

• Organic Photonics and Other Disruptive Photonics
  Technologies
• Organic Photonics (Strep)
• organic, polymer, single molecule and
  carbon-nanotube based photonic components
• OLEDs and lasers
• Organic photovoltaic cells
• Light guiding structures
• Organic photonic sensors, lasers and amplifiers
• from advanced research to application-driven
  research
• priority to proof-of-principle or 'breakthrough'
  approaches
• Disruptive / cutting-edge photonic technologies
  and materials (Strep)
• exploiting effects at the limits of light-matter
  interaction in nanophotonics
• transition from advanced research to industrial
  applications
• structure and integrate advanced research
  activities across Europe (NoE)
• Participation of Australia, Russia and the United
  States is encouraged

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Challenge 3Complementing the JTIs

• Two JTIs to pool public-private efforts and
  leverage more RD investments
• ENIAC JTI (nanoelectronics) technology for 'More
  Moore' and 'More than Moore' / application drive
  / large projects
• -gt ICT WP beyond CMOS and advanced "More than
  Moore"
• ARTEMIS JTI (Embedded Systems) platforms for
  design and implementation of ES responding to
  specific industry requirements / application
  drive
• -gt ICT WP new concepts for the design of next
  generation applications of ES / applicable across
  application sectors

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Challenge 4 Digital Libraries and Content

• Data volumes growing faster than manageable
• Preservation not adapted to complex digital
  artifacts / not automated
• Not enough human intelligence to interpret data
• Learning tools dont exploit creativity and
  independent experimentation
• Content and cultural experiences are not
  sufficiently immersive, adaptive

• Cultural experiences based on content that is
• easy to create, access, interpret
• cost-effective, self-managing, reliable,
  multilingual
• Effective and reliable preservation and usability
  over time of digital objects
• Ubiquitous and lifelong personalised learning
  experiences
• Effective information management systems
  supporting real time analyses and decisions over
  extremely large data volumes

Challenges
Expected Impacts
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3 Objectives ICT-2009.4.1/2/3
CSA, NoE
Call 6
69 M
4.1 Digital Libraries and digital
preservation IP, Strep
Call 5
49M

• 4.2 Technology-Enhanced Learning
• IP, Strep

Coordination, roadmaps and networking
70M
Call 5

• 4.3 Intelligent Information Management
• IP, Strep

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Target outcomes

• Technology-enhanced learning
• Learning in the 21st century (IP)
• large scale pilots
• Link between individual and organisational
  learning (IP/ Strep)
• embedding learning experience in organisational
  processes and practices
• Adaptive and intuitive systems (Strep)
• -serious games and immersive environments
• simulation, story telling and collaborative
  learning
• Learning appliances (Strep)
• -including toys
• advanced cognitive tutors
• Research network (NoE)
• Awareness and knowledge management (CSA)

• Digital Libraries and digital preservation
• Digital content preservation systems (IP)
• - Assessment in large-scale testbeds
• Advanced preservation scenarios
• - Complex objects (Strep)
• - Intelligent curation and preservation (IP)
• Solutions for assembling multimedia libraries
  (IP)
• Adaptive cultural experiences (Strep)
• Research Network (NoE)
• Uptake and roadmapping (CSA)

• Intelligent information management
• Capturing tractable information (IP/Strep/NoE)
• -acquire, analyse and categorise
• extract, correlate and integrate
• Delivering pertinent information (IP/Strep)
• -improve efficiency of information lifecycle
• make information actionable
• Collaboration and decision support (IP/Strep)
• -complex business processes
• -scientific communities
• web communities
• Personal sphere (Strep)
• secure, manage and visualise personal information
• Coordination and networking (CSA)

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Challenge 5 ICT for Health

• Improved productivity of healthcare systems
• Continuous and personalised care solutions
• Saving in lives and resources
• New ICT-based environments for biomedical
  research and predictive medicine
• Interoperability and standards
• Reinforced leadership of EUs eHealth and medical
  devices industries
• Reinforced international cooperation
• Increased EU research excellence

• Sustainable delivery of quality health care
• Affordable healthcare
• Demographic changes
• Inefficiencies
• Inadequate safety standards
• Higher citizens expectations
• Focus on treatment rather than prevention
• Lack of skilled medical specialists

Challenges
Expected Impacts
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4 Objectives ICT-2009.5.1/2/3/4
CSA
Call 4
63 M
5.1 Personal Health Systems Limited number of IPs
Streps
30M
Call 4

• 5.2 ICT for Patient Safety
• Limited number of IPs Streps

Coordination, roadmaps and networking
63M
Call 6

• 5.3 Virtual Physiological Human
• Limited number of IPs Streps

5M
Call 4

• 5.4 International Cooperation on VPH
• (linking ongoing projects with non-EU projects in
  VPH)

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Target outcomes

• VPH
• Patient-specific computer based models and
  simulation (gt1 IP/Strep)
• - multiscale models and simulation of
  organs/systems
• prediction/early diagnosis
• ICT tools, services and infrastructures for
  bio-medical researchers (gt1 IP/Strep)
• - share data and knowledge
• - jointly develop and share models/simulators
• create collaborative environments
• Support action on evaluation and assessment (1
  CSA)
• - shared tools/infrastructure
• market potential / penetration
• Observatories on achievements and evolution of
  Biomedical Informatics (1 CSA)

• Personal Health Systems
• Minimally invasive systems and ICT-enabled
  artificial organs (gt 2 IPs/Strep)
• - remote monitoring and care
• - integrate components into wearable, portable
  or implantable devices
• Application domains Cardiovascular diseases,
  Diabetes, Renal failure (artificial kidney),
  Liver failure (artificial liver support)
• Mental Health (gt1 IP/ Strep)
• stress, depression or bipolar disorders
• multi-parametric monitoring systems
• Support Actions (CSA)
• prevention of diseases
• interoperability of PHS

• ICT for Patient Safety
• ICT for safer surgery (gt1 IP/Strep)
• - predict clinico-functional outcome of surgical
  interventions
• - tools for training, pre-operative planning, and
  computer-aided interventions
• ICT for integration of clinical research and
  clinical care (gt1 IP/Strep)
• linking clinical care information (EHR) with
  clinical research information systems
• ICT-enabled early detection of public health
  events (1 Strep)
• event-based surveillance tools (incl. natural
  language processing, mining, interpretation)
• Support Actions (2 CSAs)
• - user-friendly interfaces for electronic health
  record systems
• - interoperability testing for exchange of
  healthcare information

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Challenge 6 ICT for mobility, environmental
sustainability and energy efficiency

• Cleaner, safer and more efficient vehicles
• Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure
  co-operative technologies
• New mobility concepts
• Intelligent power grid
• Energy-positive buildings and neighbourhoods
• Distributed environment monitoring and
  management systems
• New environmental services
• Increased capacity to mitigate impacts of
  natural disasters
• Optimal management of urban complexity
• New jobs and energy efficiency services
• More competitive European products and services

• Increasing demand for energy (transport 30)
• Traffic congestion
• Climate change
• Need for energy efficiency in the most
  energy-intensive sectors
• Need to reduce CO2 emissions
• Need of a safe, clean and healthy environment to
  sustain quality of life
• Cities have acute sustainability challenges

Challenges
Expected Impacts
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5 Objectives ICT-2009.6.1/2/3/4/5
CSA
53 M
Call 4
6.1 ICT for safety and energy efficiency in
mobility IP / Strep
37 M
Call 6
6.2 ICT for mobility of the future gt 2IPs / Strep
30M
Coordination, roadmaps and networking
30 M
Call 4
6.3 ICT for energy efficiency Strep
63M
24 M
Call 4
6.4 ICT for environmental services and climate
change adaptation Strep
20 M
Joint Call ICT/ENE
5M
6.5 Novel ICT solutions for smart electricity
distribution networks Strep
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Target outcomes (I)

• ICT for Mobility of the Future
• Field Operational Tests for Integrated Safety and
  Co-operative Systems (gt2 IPs/Strep/CSA)
• assess efficiency of transport systems
• assess safety of all road users
• assess impact of integration of in-vehicle safety
  systems with co-operative systems
• large-scale test programmes
• ICT-based systems and services for Smart Urban
  Mobility and new Mobility Concepts (Strep)
• address environmental footprint and safety of
  mobility
• tools, services and methods for demand management
• ICT for replacing mobility (virtual mobility,
  telepresence
• multi-modal urban mobility concepts
• Coordination and support actions (CA)
• Intelligent Car initiative roadmaps,
  dissemination, assessments, training
• International cooperation (CA)
• Japan / USA mutual validation and exploitation
  of results

• ICT for Energy Efficiency
• (Strep)
• ICT tools for the future electricity market
• architectures and tools for open electricity
  market
• service delivery platform
• uniform energy and information interfaces
• validate in concrete applications
• ICT support to energy-positive buildings and
  neighbourhoods
• monitoring and control systems
• information platforms connected to grids
• intuitive user interfaces
• tests under real conditions
• ICT services and software tools enhanced with
  energy features
• support to control emissions and energy
  consumption
• CAD and simulation tools
• enterprise Management Systems

• ICT for safety and energy efficiency in mobility
• ICT for Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IP/Strep)
• in-vehicle safety systems
• autonomous driving
• crash avoidance and collision reduction
• integrated approach (infrastructure, vehicles,
  drivers, other users)
• ICT for Clean and Efficient Mobility (IP/Strep)
• energy-efficient driving (eco-driving)
• on-board systems / co-operative infrastructure
• energy-optimised / adaptive traffic control
• international harmonisation and standardisation
  (Japan, USA)
• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)
• research agenda / international cooperation
• user awareness and dissemination
• support to Intelligent Car Initiative / eSafety
  Forum

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Target outcomes (II)

• ICT for Environmental Services and Climate
  Change Adaptation
• ICT for a better adaptation to climate change
  (STREP)
• web-based systems for preparedness, decision
  support and mitigation of climate change impact
• 3D/4D modelling, simulation and visualisation
• validation of integrated solutions in urban
  context
• Flexible discovery and chaining of distributed
  environmental services (STREP)
• semantics frameworks for discovery and access of
  distributed environmental resources
• on-demand adaptive chaining / composition
• Analysis of ICT for sustainable urban environment
  (CSA)
• managing interaction of resources efficiency,
  pollution mitigation and quality of life
• Stimulation of an ICT-enabled environmental
  information service economy in Europe (CSA)
• stimulating viable environmental monitoring
  networks

• Novel ICT Solutions for Smart Electricity
  Distribution Networks (Joint call STREP ICT)
• ICT infrastructures for management of electricity
  distribution networks
• scalable, low-cost, secure, reliable, open,
  self-healing capabilities
• dynamically reconfigurable ICT architectures
• technologies and tools for ICT systems
  survivability
• platforms integrating real-time information from
  wireless sensor networks
• integration of external information systems such
  as weather forecasts
• Trial tests to validate and assess the proposed
  solutions
• Involvement of partners from both the ICT and
  Electricity communities

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Challenge 7 ICT for Independent Living,
Inclusion and Governance

• Ageing Population
• 30 non-users of ICT
• New expectations for inclusion
• Inaccessible or expensive ICT
• ICT-enabled governance and policy modelling
  lack of models and tools
  

• Increased efficiency of care
• Prolonged independance
• Generalised accessibility support
• Empowerement of individuals, groups and
  communities
• Consolidated European excellence in enabling
  technologies
• Open platforms and tools
• Global standards
• New markets and reinforced competitiveness

Challenges
Expected Impacts
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3 Objectives ICT-2009.7.1/2/3
CSA
Call 4
24 M

• 7.1 ICT Ageing
• Service Robotics for ageing well
• Open Platforms for independent living (1 IP)

34M
Call 4

• 7.2 Accessible and Assistive ICT
• -Embedded accessibility (1 IP STREPs)
• -ICT restoring and augmenting human capability

Coordination, roadmaps and networking
15M
Call 4

• 7.3 ICT for governance and policy modelling
• Governance and participation tool box
• Policy modelling, simulation and visualisation

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Target outcomes and key features
www.aal-europe.eu

• Accessible
• and Assistive ICT
• Support developers in embedding accessibility in
  mainstream products and services
• Use virtual environments and user modelling
• - 1 IP generic framework
• STREP virtual user modelling and simulation
• Build on progress in brain/neuronal computer
  interaction, bio-sensors self-learning systems
  (Strep)
• Research agendas and coordination (CA)

• ICT for
• governance and
• policy modelling
• (Strep)
• Tools embodying structural, organisational and
  governance models
• Creation, learning, sharing and tracking of group
  knowledge
• Public services as complex service systems
• Forecast potential outcomes of policy proposed
  measures
• Roadmapping and networking (CSA)

• ICT Ageing
• Integration of modular robotic solutions (Strep)
• Verification in real user environments
• No development of basic robotics components (CH2)
• Reference architecture and standards (IP)
• Solutions across mobile and stationary
  environments
• Roadmaps and coordination (CSA)
• Complementarity with AAL joint national programme
  
• AAL applied RD / ICT-based solutions
• ICT WP research targeting 5-10 years to market
  and larger scale projects

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Future Emerging Technologies FETA continuing
well established successful ICT scheme
An incubator and pathfinder for new ideas and
themes for long-term research in the area of
information and communication technologies
High risk research, offset by potential
breakthrough with high technological and/or
societal impact
Two complementary inter-linked schemes FET
Proactive FET Open

• FET Proactive
• Top-down approach
• Set of novel pre-defined themes
• 110 M

• FET Open
• Bottom-up approach
• Open to any research idea
• 61 M

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ICT-2009.8.0FET-Open Challenging current
thinking
FET-Open targets foundational breakthroughs that
open the way towards radically new forms and uses
of information and information technologies.

• STREP, CSA
• 61M
• Call continuously open
• two step submission

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FET Proactive WP 2009-2010transformative and
foundational research
CSA
CSA
1,5M
Call 4
0,5M
8.1 Concurrent Tera-Device Computing (15M,
IP/Strep) 8.2 Quantum Information Foundations
Techn. (15M, IP) 8.3 Bio-Chemistry based
Information Techn. (7M, Strep)
Call 5
1,5M
0,5M
8.4 Human-Computer Confluence (15M, IP) 8.5
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (15M,
IP/Strep) 8.6 Towards Zero-Power ICT (7M, Strep)
8.10 Identifying new research topics, Assessing
emerging global ST trends in ICT for future FET
Proactive Initiatives
8.9 Coordinating Communities, Plans Actions in
FET Proactive Initiatives
1,5M
Call 6
0,5M

• 8.7 Molecular Scale Devices and Systems (15M,
  IP/Strep)
• 8.8 Brain Inspired ICT (15M, IP/Strep)

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International cooperation

• Jointly respond to major global technological
  challenges by developing interoperable solutions
  and standards
• high income countries and/or emerging economies
• Jointly develop ICT solutions to major global
  societal challenges
• establish long-term partnership with low-income
  countries
• address development issues through ICT
• develop new markets for European industry
• Improve scientific and technological cooperation
  for mutual benefit
• establish strategic partnerships with emerging
  economies
• promote cultural diversity and mutual
  understanding
• Support to information society policy dialogues
• contribute to increasing the participation of
  third country organisations
• facilitate the widest diffusion and local
  exploitation of ICT research results

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International CooperationTargeted opening

• Challenge 1. Networks and services
• Future Internet, Japan, USA
• Internet of things / RFID, North America, China,
  Japan, Korea
• Trustworthy ICT, Developed countries, BRICs
• Challenge 3. Components, Systems, Engineering
• Semiconductors, components, nanoelectronic
  technologies (Russia, India, Japan, USA, Taiwan,)
  
• Embedded systems, (USA, India)
• Photonics, (Canada, Russia, USA, Australia)
• Challenge 5. ICT for Health
• ICT for patient safety, USA, Canada, Japan
• Dedicated objective on VPH (USA/Japan - 5M)
• Challenge 6 ICT for mobility, environmental
  sustainability.
• ICT for Mobility of the Future (Japan/USA)
• Supplements to ongoing projects
• Trustworthy ICT, Nanoelectronics,
  Micro-nanosystems, Embedded Systems,

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Objective ICT-2009.9.1 Horizontal actions for
international cooperation

• 9.1a) Support to Information Society policy
  dialogues and strengthening of international
  cooperation
• CSA 4M
• Events, analysis of ICT policy and research
  priorities in third countries,
• Synergies with activities launched under other
  Programmes
• 9.1b) Support the uptake of EU ICT research
  results in developing economies
• STREP/SICA 5M
• Facilitate the diffusion and local exploitation
  of ICT research results
• Testing of solutions adapted to local
  requirements
• ICT for public services (eg. e-government,
  e-health, )
• Business-related applications (eg. e-commerce,
  m-banking)
• Solutions supporting sustainable development
  objectives, notably for the environment
• Networking of relevant technology developers with
  users
• 9.1c) Identifying strategic partners and
  developing international market objectives and
  priorities
• CSA 3M
• Extend the constituency of established European
  technology and innovation roadmaps to key
  partners in third countries, particularly in the
  fields of Future Internet and ICT components and
  systems.
• Identification of centres of competence
• Exchange of best practice

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Objective ICT-2009.9.3 General Accompanying
Measures

• ICT RD skills in Europe 1 CSA / up to 400 K
• assessement of current and future situation
• promotion actions to build up and attract more
  ICT research expertise in Europe
• Pre-commercial procurement 3 CSAs / up to 400 K
  each
• raise awareness and exchange experiences between
  stakeholders
• Shared research facilities, excellence centres or
  clusters 3 CSAs / up to 400 K each
• complementary or common planning of investments
  in research infrastructures centres and clusters
• widening access and use
• Economics of ICT One CSA / up to 500 K
• coordination of research
• assessment of ICT induced investment in
  intangibles
• assessment of the impact of ICT RD expenditures
  and ICT RD policy on productivity
• Access to finance for innovative SMEs Up to 2
  CSAs / up to 700 K
• enabling efficient interactions between SMEs
  involved in projects and Venture Capital firms,
  Business Angels and other private equity firms

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Objective ICT-2009.9.4 Strengthening Cooperation
in ICT RD in an Enlarged Europe

• Reinforcing the cooperation between research
  teams across the enlarged Europe in a specific
  ICT field.
• secondment of PhD or post-graduate students and
  researchers
• organisation of targeted research workshops and
  events in view of improving collaboration
• Around ten CSA of the order of EUR 500 thousand
  each are expected to be funded.
• Within each CSA, the majority of the funding is
  expected to be dedicated to the secondment scheme.

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Call 4 Launch 19 Nov 2008, DL 1 Apr 09 800 M

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Call 5 Launch 31 Jul 09, DL 3 Nov 09, 720 M
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Call 6 Launch in 24 Nov 09, DL 13 April 10
285M
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Next steps

• 22 October 08 Final WP to ICTC for opinion
• 18 November 08 WP adoption
• 19 November 08 ICT Call 4 launch
• 25 27 November 2008 ICT 2008 in Lyon
• 22 January 2009 ICT Proposers Day, Budapest
• July 09 ICT Call 5 launch
• November 09 ICT Call 6 launch

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ICT 2008 25/27 November 2008 Lyon - France

• Conference Programme
• Four Plenary sessions
• Opening, High Level, and Closing
• Panel discussion ICT Excellence matter
• 3 keynotes
• 18 thematic parallel sessions
• 31 parallel session on WPs (27 session WP
  objectives)
• Programme details already published on ICT 2008
  website
• Speakers include
• A. Fert, Nobel Prize Winner 2007
• Commissioner V. Reding
• Several French Ministers CZ Minister
• CEOs from Alcatel Lucent, TomTom, Thales
• Active participation from European Venture
  Capitalists
• VP of EIB

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ICT 2008Exhibition Networking Sessions

• Exhibition
• 319 exhibit proposals received
• 179 exhibits selected
• There will be 4 exhibition villages
• RD village (110 exhibits divided into 7 themes)
• SME village (20 innovative SMEs)
• International village
• Information village
• FR pavilion EC stand
• Networking sessions
• 219 proposals received
• 115 networking sessions accepted

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FP7 ICT Proposers Day

• Budapest 22 January 2009

• Obtain information
• Challenges and objectives of the Work Programme
• Instruments, contracts, rules for participation
• Around 100 Commission officials present

• Network
• Meet researchers with similar or complementary
  research interests
• Form project consortia
• Follow-up of the ICT Event in Lyon

• http//ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/bud
  apest_2009

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More Information

• FP7 http//ec.europa.eu/fp7/ict
• FP6 http//cordis.europa.eu/ist