Overview of the Framework 7 ICT Draft Work Programme 20092010

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Overview of the Framework 7 ICT Draft Work
Programme 2009-2010

• Presented at the University of Limerick, 9th
  October 2008
• By Stephen OReilly
• National Contact Point ICT

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Summary

• FP7-ICT and complementary ICT work programmes
• ICT the story so far
• Overview of the draft 2009-2010 FP7-ICT work
  programme
• Brief overview of the draft 2009 ICT Policy
  Support work programme
• EI financial supports
• Sources of information, future events, contact
  details

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Overview of FP7 ICT and complementary ICT work
programmes
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Routes Into FP7
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Global Figures

• ICT Call 1, Budget 1.194 Billion
• 1,836 proposals submitted, 318 funded ( 1 in 6)
• ICT Call 2, Budget 477 Million
• 906 proposals submitted, 149 funded ( 1 in 6)
• ICT Call 3, Budget 265 Million
• 829 proposals submitted, 71 funded ( 1 in 12)
• Details available of projects funded under
  different objectives (topics)

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Irelands performance in 2007/2008 calls

• Call 1
• 43 (out of 231) funded participations by 22
  Organisations
• Total funding 16.2 million (43 industry)
• Call 2
• 24 (out of 120) funded participations by 13
  Organisations
• Total funding 5.9 million (33 industry)
• Call 3 (preliminary figures)
• 6 (out of 85) funded participations by 6
  Organisations
• Total funding 2 million (40 industry)

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University of Limerick performance to date

• ICT Calls 1, 2 and 3
• 10 proposals in total
• No Co-ordinators
• 4 proposals passed evaluation
• 2 proposals funded
• 318k in funding

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FP7 ICT Draft Work Programme for 2009-2010

• 7 Challenges
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FETs)
• Horizontal support actions
• Each is divided into Objectives
• Calls (4, 5 and 6 ) for proposals address
  objectives
• Total budget of 1.9 Billion

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FP7 ICT Challenges
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Funding schemes (instruments)

• Collaborative projects (CP)
• Small or medium-scale focused research actions
  (STREP)
• Large-scale integrating projects (IP)
• Networks of Excellence (NoE)
• Number of research organisations integrating
  activities in a given field
• Longer term cooperation.
• Coordination and support actions (CSA)
• Support to activities aimed at coordinating or
  supporting research activities and policies
• Two types of projects to be financed
• Coordination Actions (CA)
• Specific Support Actions (SA)

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Challenge 1 Pervasive and Trustworthy Network
and Service Infrastructures (30 )

• 1.1 The Network of the Future (4,5)
• 1.2 Internet of Services, Software and
  Virtualisation (5)
• 1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise
  environments (5)
• 1.4 Trustworthy ICT (5)
• 1.5 Networked Media and 3D Internet (4)
• 1.6 Future Internet experimental facility and
  experimentally-driven research (5)

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Challenge 2 Cognitive Systems, Interaction,
Robotics (9)

• 2.1 Cognitive Systems and Robotics (4,6)
• 2.2 Language-based interaction (4)

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Challenge 3 Components, systems, engineering
(20)

• 3.1 Nanoelectronics technology (5)
• 3.2 Design of semiconductor components and
  electronic-based miniaturised systems(4)
• 3.3 Flexible, organic and large area electronics
  (4)
• 3.4 Embedded Systems Design (4)
• 3.5 Engineering of Networked Monitoring and
  Control
• systems (5)
• 3.6 Computing Systems (4)
• 3.7 Photonics (4, 5)
• 3.8 Organic photonics and other disruptive
  photonics technologies (4)
• 3.9 Microsystems and smart miniaturised systems
  (5)

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Challenge 4 Digital Libraries and Content (10)

• 4.1 Digital libraries and digital preservation
  (6)
• 4.2 Technology-enhanced learning (5)
• 4.3 Intelligent information management (5)

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Challenge 5 Towards sustainable and
personalised healthcare (9)

• 5.1 Personal Health Systems (4)
• 5.2 ICT for Patient Safety (4)
• 5.3 Virtual Physiological Human (6)
• 5.4 International Cooperation on Virtual
  Physiological Human (4)

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Challenge 6 ICT for Mobility, Environmental
Sustainability and Energy Efficiency (8)

• 6.1 ICT for Safety and Energy Efficiency in
  Mobility (4)
• 6.2 ICT for mobility of the future (6)
• 6.3 ICT for energy efficiency (4)
• 6.4 ICT for environmental services and climate
  change adaptation (4)
• 6.5 Novel ICT solutions for Smart Electricity
  Distribution Networks - (Joint Call ICT-Energy)

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Challenge 7 ICT for Independent Living,
Inclusion and Governance (4)

• 7.1 ICT and Ageing (4)
• 7.2 Accessible and Assistive ICT (4)
• 7.3 ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling (4)

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Future and Emerging Technologies (FETs)

• Two complementary schemes, FET Open and FET
  Proactive
• Address new and emerging ICTs and their
  applications
• FET Open new ideas and opportunities whenever
  they arise.
• FET Proactive aligned with economic and social
  challenges and priorities

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FET Open (3) mission

• High-risk/high return foundational research
  relevant to future ICT
• Collaborative high quality and long-term research
• Multidisciplinary builds bridges between ICTs
  and other disciplines
• Light, flexible and continuous submission schemes
• Short STREP continuous submission and evaluation
• CA and Full STREP evaluation per batch

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FET Open in 2009/10 Work Programme
Indicative budget 61 M for the 4 batches
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Future and Emerging Technologies FET Proactive
(6)

• Fixed calls and on specific long term research
  topics
• Basic research level before mainstream industrial
  research
• Multidisciplinary work at frontier of ICT
• Early ground breaking work already demonstrated
• Build critical mass and focus efforts

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Future and Emerging Technologies FET Proactive
(6)

• 8.1 Concurrent Tera-Device Computing (4)
• 8.2 Quantum Information Foundations and
  Technologies (4)
• 8.3 Bio-chemistry-based Information Technology
  (4)
• 8.4 Human-Computer Confluence (5)
• 8.5 Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (5)
• 8.6 Towards Zero-Power ICT (5)
• 8.7 Molecular Scale Devices and Systems (6)
• 8.8 Brain Inspired ICT (6)
• 8.9 Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions
  in FET Proactive Initiatives (4,5,6)
• 8.10 Identifying new research topics, assessing
  emerging global Science and Technology trends in
  ICT for future FET proactive initiatives (4, 5,
  6)

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Horizontal support actions

• International cooperation
• Strategic research partnerships with third
  countries
• Achieving upstream global consensus for
  interoperability and standardisation
• Strengthening business co-operation between
  industries of third-countries and European ICT
• International Cooperation between ongoing FP7 ICT
  projects with partner-projects funded by third
  countries
• Joint results, exchange of knowledge or use of
  each others facilities
• General Accompanying Measures
• Coordination of ICT RD skills in Europe
• Coordination of shared research facilities or
  excellence centres
• Strengthening cooperation in ICT RD in an
  enlarged Europe
• Secondment of PhD or post-graduate students and
  researchers

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Horizontal support actions (1)

• 9.1 Horizontal support actions for international
  cooperation (4)
• 9.2 Supplements to support International
  Cooperation between ongoing projects (4,6)
• 9.3 General Accompanying Measures (4)
• 9.4 Strengthening cooperation in ICT RD in an
  enlarged Europe (4)

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Work programmes 2009-2010 Draft call plan all
ICT areas
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FP7 ICT Draft Call schedules
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Enterprise Ireland supports

• Travel grant
• Up to 1,000 per trip
• Co-ordinator grant
• The maximum grant is 25,000 for preparation of
  the proposal for submission to the EC
• http//www.fp7ireland.com/Page.aspx?SP225

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Useful sources of information

• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html

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Useful sources of information

• www.fp7ireland.com

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Useful sources of information

• Free ICT book http//www.efpconsulting.com/front/S
  howCategory.aspx?CatID30

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Ideal-ist

• The worldwide ICT Partner Search Network
• 49 national representatives
• All requests for partner search are vetted by
  Ideal-ist Quality team before being published
• Search request distributed to over 55,000
  international contacts
• Average of 36 responses per partner search
• No obligation to accept any responses
• http//www.ideal-ist.net/

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EU Publication on FP7 the basics
FP7 Fact Sheets http//ec.europa.eu/research/f
p7/understanding/index.html
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Future Events

• 2008 NEM (Networked Elect. Media) Summit, 13-15
  October, France
• http//www.fp7ireland.com/Events.aspx?WCIhtmEvent
  WCUEVENT_PKEY53
• EU-Russia ICT Information Brokerage event,
  23-25 October, Moscow
• http//www.fp7ireland.com/Events.aspx?WCIhtmEvent
  WCUEVENT_PKEY38
• ICT 2008, 25-27 November, Lyon
• http//www.fp7ireland.com/Events.aspx?WCIhtmEvent
  WCUEVENT_PKEY37
• FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009, 22 January, Budapest
  http//www.fp7ireland.com/Events.aspx?WCIhtmEvent
  WCUEVENT_PKEY55

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Contact details

• Stephen OReilly
• 021 4800217
• 087 9281449
• stephen.oreilly_at_enterprise-ireland.com

• Gerard Kennedy
• 061 429952
• 087 6967478
• gerard.kennedy_at_enterprise-ireland.com

www.FP7-Ireland.com