content, implementation mechanisms, instruments

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AMI_at_Netfood International Dissemination
WorkshopConference Future Activities in ICT in
the 7th Framework Programme of the European
Commission16 November 2006Istanbul, Turkey
Oluf Nielsen
European Commission Directorate-General
Information Society and Media Unit New Working
Environments
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1) FP 7 Framework Programme for Research,
Technological Development and Demonstration
Activities 2007-2013 / Strategic Objectives

• Promoting and investing in world class- state of
  the art research based on excellence in research
• Development of a Knowledge-based economy and
  society in Europe which will meet the objectives
  of the Lisbon strategy
• Enhance dynamism, creativity and excellence of
  European research at the frontier of knowledge
• Strengthen human potential in research and
  technology
• Deepen the dialogue between science and society
  in Europe thus develop a science and research
  agenda that meets citizens concerns
• Strengthen research and innovation capacities
  throughout Europe
• The Seventh Framework Programme has to contribute
  and promote sustainable growth and environmental
  protection including climate change

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Specific Programmes
FP 7 Activities
M
Co-operation transnational collaboration to
strengthen excellence in key areas of science and
technology
32413
Ideas dynamism, creativity and excellence in
frontier research
7510
People strengthening Human Potential in research
4750
Capacities building and utilising research
capacity
4097

1751
JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (Euratom)
RTD (Euratom)
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3) FP 7 Thematic Areas
Commission proposal
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4) FP 7 ICT / Information and Communication
Technologies Objectives / Rationale

• To improve the competitiveness of European
  industry enabling Europe to master and shape the
  future developments of ICT to meet the demands of
  society and economy
• ICT is at the core of the knowledge-based society
  and will strengthen Europe's scientific and
  technology base by ensuring global leadership
  driving and stimulating product, service and
  process innovation and creativity
• ICT are critical to Europe's future and underpins
  the realisation of the Lisbon agenda having
  catalytic impact on productivity and innovation
• Approximately half of the productivity gains in
  our economy can be explained by ICT impact on
  products, services and business processes
• ICT are leading force in boosting innovation and
  creativity and in mastering of changes in
  complete value chains across industry and service
  sectors

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5) FP 7 Joint Technology Initiatives /
Co-ordination of Non-Community Research

• In limited number of cases, the scope of a RTD
  objective and the scale of the resources involved
  justifies to establish long term public private
  partnerships in Joint Technology initiatives
  combining private sector investment and national
  and European public funding
• Co-ordination of Non-Community Research
  Programmes will use two main tools
• - The ERA-NET scheme
• - The participation of the Community in jointly
  implemented national programmes (Treaty Article
  169) in well-identified cases on large scale and
  "variable geometry" including intergovernmental
  programmes

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6) FP 7 ICT Work Programme 2007-2008 Focus /
Challenges

• Input in brief A changing ICT context
• Increasing competition at a global scale
• Acceleration of ICT innovation cycles
• Europe needs to position itself in the important
  parts of the value chain where it can, and should
  compete
• Mastering key elements of the technology chain
• Europe specific needs drive a growing demand for
  ICT
• Europe can address its major socio economic
  challenges with ICT
• And provide new opportunities to European industry

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WP Main Features

• Providing a European vision/strategy for ICT
  research development
• Focused on a limited set of concrete targets
• Reflecting industrial and policy priorities
• Balanced
• Continuity and a new impetus
• Reinforcing Europes strongholds and seizing new
  opportunities

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WP Main Objectives and Structure (1)

• A WP structured around a limited set of
  Challenges
• A Challenge is
• Focused on concrete goals that require effort at
  Community level and where collaboration is needed
• Ambitious and strategic proposing a European
  vision on ICT for the next 10 to 15 years
• Described in terms of achievements to reach and
  not in terms of means to realise achievements

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WP Main Objectives and Structure (2)

• A Challenge is driven by
• The need to overcome precise technology
  roadblocks to reach specific technical
  characteristics of a target solution, or
• The need to develop precise end-to-end systems to
  achieve specific socio-economic goals
• Each Challenge is addressed through a limited set
  of Objectives that form the basis of Calls for
  Proposals
• An Objective is described in terms of
• Target outcome
• Expected impact

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Challenges Building on Europes Strengths (1)

• Industrial technological leadership in key ICT
  fields
• Telecom, embedded IT, nano-electronics,
  micro-systems, rich audio-visual content etc
• Capacity to draw on multiple disciplines
• ICT, biology and Biotechnology, physics,
  materials, social science,..
• Handling complexity
• Transform progress in complex technologies into
  reliable products
• e.g. infrastructures energy, telecom, trains
  complex devices mobile, home,
• Strengths in vertical markets
• e.g. automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals
• Partnering and collaboration
• consensus-building, pursuing common goals

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Challenges Building on Europes Strengths (2)

• Two major strongholds
• Converged networks and infrastructures
• Replacing current internet, mobile fixed, media
  and service infrastructures
• More pervasive, service, software and
  communication infrastructures
• More flexible and adaptable
• Scalable
• Secure and dependable
• Smaller, faster, cheaper and more reliable
  components and embedded systems
• Towards the nano-scale, higher integration (SoCs,
  SiPs,..)
• Multifunctional micro-systems, photonics
• Productivity and reliability of embedded systems,
  computing and control
• Budget increase by 20-30 in comparison with FP6

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Challenges Opportunities from growing demand

• New opportunities emerging from
• Growing demand and new ways of using ICT
• new technology paths
• Growing demand in areas corresponding to Europes
  socioeconomic challenges
• Digital content and knowledge (including
  learning, culture, digital libraries..)
• Sustainable health
• Intelligent car and safe transport, sustainable
  growth,
• Inclusion and independent living
• Demand for end to end systems, services and
  products, driving ICT progress and innovation
• Budget increase up to 60 in comparison with FP6

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Challenge Opportunities from new technology paths

• Opportunities arising from new technology paths
• A new wave of more intelligent technology
• ICT systems that can learn from experience and
  observation
• can adapt to the user and to their environment
• are aware of the context
• Driven by developments in
• Cognitive systems
• in interaction/simulation
• and in advanced robotics
• Budget increase by 55
• FET as pathfinder, budget increase by 20

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ICT WP 2007-08 Challenges
End-to-end systems for Socio-economic goals
Digital content and knowledge
ICT for health
Intelligent car and sustainable
growth
ICT for independent living and
inclusion
Network and service infrastructures
Future and Emerging Technologies
Cognitive systems, robotics and interaction
Technology roadblocks
Components, subsystems and embedded systems
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FP 7 ICT Work Programme Content / Challenges

• Ch 1 Pervasive trusted network service
  infrastructures (1)
• Target Converged infrastructures for
  Communication, Computing and media.
• Replacing gradually the current Internet, fixed
  and mobile communications and services,
  broadcasting networks
• Providing computing as a utility.
• Roadblocks
• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Dependability and security

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Ch 1 Pervasive trusted network service
infrastructures (2)

• The network of the future Call1 M 200
• Service software architectures Call1 M 120
• ICT in Support of the networked enterprise Call 1
  M 30
• Secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures Cal
  l1 M 88
• Networked Media Call1 M 85
• New paradigms experimental facilities Call2
  M 40
• Critical infrastructure protection Call2 M
  20

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Ch 2 Cognitive systems, interactive environments
robots (1)

• Target More intelligent ICT systems that will
  transform the way we design, use and interact
  with ICT based applications and services
• Roadblocks
• Advanced behaviours From perception to action
• Learning from observations and experiences
• Adaptation to context and content
• Integration and embodiment in robots and smart
  devices

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Ch 2 Cognitive systems, interactive environments
robots

• Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
• Call1 M 96
• Call3 M 97

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Ch 3 Higher performance reliable components
subsystems embedded systems (1)

• Target to lead the supply of electronic
  components and systems and their integration into
  products across all sectors.
• Roadblocks
• Continued miniaturisation
• Higher integration of different functionalities
• Combination of different properties of materials
• Productivity of design
• Adaptation to physical environment and
  constraints
• Optimised computing architectures
• Efficient control and manufacturing

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Ch 3 Higher performance reliable components
subsystems embedded systems (2)

• Next generation Nanoelectronics
• components and electronics integration Call1 M
  86
• Organic large area electronics and display
• systems Call1 M 63
• Embedded Systems Design Call1 M 40
• Computing Systems Call1 M 25
• Photonic components subsystems Call2 M 90
• Micro / Nanosystems Call2 M 83
• Networked embedded control systems Call2 M
  47

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Ch 4 European digital content and knowledge
factory (1)

• Target Placing Europe in the best position to
  exploit the growth and diffusion of digital
  content seizing Europes knowledge, cultural and
  creative potential
• Target end to end systems
• Creative content tools
• Knowledge management based on content and context
• Adaptive learning tools
• Tools for digital libraries and culture

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Ch 4 European digital content and knowledge
factory (2)

• Digital Librairies and technology-enhanced
  learning
• Call 1 M 52
• Call 3 M 50
• Intelligent content and semantics
• Call 1 M 51
• Call 3 M 50

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Ch 5 Sustainable and personalised healthcare (1)

• Target Higher productivity, better quality,
  safer and personalised healthcare
• Target end to end systems
• Preventive health monitoring systems
• Point of care diagnostic systems
• Remote disease management
• Patient safety systems
• Virtual Physiological Human

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Ch 5 Sustainable and personalised healthcare (2)

• Personal Health systems for monitoring
  Point-of-Care diagnostics Call1 M 72
• Advanced ICT for Risk Assessment Patient
  Safety Call1 M 30
• Virtual Physiological Human Call2 M 72

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Ch 6 ICT for mobility, sustainability energy
efficiency (1)

• Target Safer and more efficient mobility and
  better management of natural resources
• Target end to end systems
• Intelligent vehicle systems
• Cooperative transport systems
• Mobility services
• Environmental monitoring
• Energy efficient design tools

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Ch 6 ICT for mobility, sustainability energy
efficiency (2)

• ICT for Intelligent vehicles Mobility Services
  Call1 M 57
• ICT for Cooperative Systems Call2 M 48
• ICT for Environmental management energy
  efficiency Call2 M 54

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Ch 7 ICT for independent living and inclusion (1)

• Target To integrate people at risk of exclusion
  and allow individuals to participate fully in
  society
• Target end to end systems
• Open systems, reference architectures and
  platforms for independent living and
  accessibility
• ICT based assistive systems
•  Systemic  solutions for independent living

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Ch 7 ICT for independent living and inclusion (2)

• ICT and Ageing Call1 M 30
• Accessible and Inclusive ICT Call2 M 43

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Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

• FET - Open
• Continuous from February 2007 onwards M 65
• FET - Proactive
• Nano-scale ICT devices systems Call1 M 20
• Pervasive adaptation Call1 M 20
• Bio-ICT convergence Call1 M 20
• Science of complex systems for
• socially intelligent ICT Call3 M 20
• Embodied Intelligence Call3 M 20
• ICT forever yours Call3 M 20

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Horizontal support actions

• International cooperation
• Promition of EU ICT programme co-operation
• Strengthened Information Society policy dialogues
• Specific International Collaboration Actions
• Trans-national co-operation among National
  Contact Points (NCP)
• Reinforcing the network of National Contact
  Points by promoting further trans-national
  co-operation
• E.g. Joint/co-ordinated calls will be encouraged
  among other activities

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Joint actions with other themes

• Combine effort to each critical mass
• Bring together complementary disciplines
  developing a comprehensive approach to address a
  challenge
• Joint or synchronised calls
• Critical Information Infrastructure protection
  with the Security theme
• Virtual Physiological Human with the Health
  theme.
• ICT for manufacturing together with theme 4 on
  Nanotechnologies, Material and production
  technologies?

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ERA-NET

• Objective Step up the cooperation and
  coordination of research programmes carried out
  at National or regional Level
• Through networking of research programmes and
  development of joint activities
• In FP7 ERA-NETs are continued and reinforced
• ERA-NET-Plus module for joint calls
• Information exchange
• Definition of joint activities
• Implementation of joint activities
• Funding of joint trans-national research actions
• FP6 follow-up proposed under FP7 is possibly
  linked at step 3 and 4

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9) FP 7 Project types / funding schemes

• Collaborative projects aimed at developing new
  knowledge, technology, products, demonstration
  activities or common resources for research
• Small or medium-scale focused research actions
  (STREP)
• Large-scale integrating projects (IP)
• Networks of Excellence (NOE) support to a Joint
  Programme of Activities implemented by a number
  of research organisations integrating their
  activities in a given field carried out by
  research teams in the framework of longer term
  co-operation
• Coordination and support actions (CSA) aimed at
  coordinating or supporting activities and
  policies e.g. by networking, exchanges,
  trans-national access to research
  infrastructures, studies, conferences etc
• Coordination or networking actions (CA)
• Specific support actions (SSA)

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10) Involving SMEs and feeding innovation

• Particular attention to SMEs needs and potential
  in the definition of the priorities of the ICT
  work programme
• SMEs in FP7 projects the Communitys financial
  contribution may reach a maxumum of 75 of the
  total eligible costs
• The role of SMEs in innovation is indisputable
• SMEs play a vital role in the development of new
  business visions
• SMEs have a strong capacity to focus research
  effort to develop and implement new business
  apportunities
• The aim for FP7 will be to enable at least 15 of
  the funding to SMEs

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11) FP 7 SME Activities

• Specific actions to support SMEs or SME
  associations in need of outsourcing research with
  limited or no research capability
• Research intensive SMEs may participate as
  research service providers or outsource research
  to complement their core research capability
• Actions will include support and demonstration to
  facilitate the exploitation of research results
• Research for SMEs to support small groups of
  innovative SMEs to solve common or complementary
  technological problems
• Research for SME associations to support them and
  SME groupings to develop technical solutions to
  common problems in specific industrial sectors or
  value chains

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12) CIP Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme Objectives / Implementation

• To foster the competitiveness of enterprises and
  in particularly SMEs
• To promote innovation including eco-innovation
• To accelerate the development of a competitive,
  innovative and inclusive Information Society
• To promote energy efficiency and new renewable
  energy sources in all sectors including transport
• CIP will be implemented in specific programmes
  and annual work programmes
• The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme
• The ICT policy support Programme
• The Intelligent Energy-Europe Programme
• The total budget for CIP 2007-2013 is EUR 4212, 6
  million

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13) CIP Implementation Measures

• Community financial instruments for SMEs
• Networks bringing together a variety of
  stakeholders
• Pilot projects, market replication, projects and
  other measures to support the take-up of
  innovation
• Policy analyses, development and coordination
  with participating countries
• Information sharing, dissemination and awareness
  raising
• Support to joint actions of Member States or
  regions
• Procurement based on technical specifications
  elaborated in cooperation with the Member States
• Twinning between authorities at national and
  regional level
• CIP will encourage and facilitate the
  participation of SMEs in FP.7 through its
  services in support for their business and
  innovation activities

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14) FP 7 Regions of Knowledge Objectives/
Rational / Activities

• To strengthening the research potential of
  European regions by encouraging and supporting
  development of regional "research-driven-clusters"
  associating universities, research centres,
  enterprises and regional authorities
• Enabling European regions to strengthen their
  capacity for investing in RDT and carry out
  research activities maximising their potential
  involvement in European research projects
• The new Regions of Knowledge will involve and
  bring together regional actors involved in
  research and projects will cover joint analysis
  of research agendas of regional clusters
• Involving regions in specific research activities
  and this includes "mentoring" of regions with
  less developed research profiles and support to
  emerging Regions of Knowledge

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How to build a proposal ?

• 1. Your idea does it fit the IST-Workprogramme
  ?
• 2. Yes ? Identify the Strategic Objective !
• 3. Is there a Call going on ? Check roadmap for
  Strategic Objectives !
• 4. Which type of action is called for in the
  Strategic Objective ?
• 5. Check Call Text check deadline !
• 6. Contact EC-Contact Person be sure idea is in
  scope of call
• Dont forget The Coordinator of the project must
  be EU or associated states
• Find EU partners through your existing bilateral
  co-operation

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• Oluf.nielsen_at_ec.europa.eu