PELC 2005 Den Haag, 11 April 2005

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PELC 2005Den Haag, 11 April 2005
Options for Process Industry Collaboration within
the European Research Programmes Dr Erastos
FilosEuropean Commission, Brussels
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Presentation Outline

• The Lisbon Agenda EU Policies for Growth Jobs
• The European Framework Programme for Research
• How Can the Process Industries Get Involved ?

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How to Address Europes Challenges

• Globalisation ?
• Outsourcing ?
• Brain drain ?
• Skills gap ?

• Invest in RD
• Facilitate ICT take-up
• Improve Europes innovation culture
• Streamline regulatory framework

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Key Policies to Achieve Lisbon Goals
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More than 20 Years of EU Framework Programme for
Research
FP evolution in last 20 years
growing, but only 5 of public RDspending in
Europe
EU activities require

• Collaboration cross-disciplinarity
• Consensus partnership(funding levels 50 of
  industrial, 100 of academic participation)

Integrated Projects
Focused RD
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6th Framework Programme for Research
(2003-2006) 17.6 bn

• Focusing Integrating Community Research mn
• Life sciences, genomics, biotech 2,255
• Information Society Technologies 3,625
• Nanotechnologies, knowledge-based materials, new
  processes 1,300
• Aeronautics and space 1,075
• Food quality safety 685
• Sustainable development, ... 2,120
• Citizens governance 225
• ST needs, SMEs, Intl Co-operation 1,300
• JRC non-nuclear research 760
• Structuring the European Research Area
• Research innovation 290
• Human resources 1,580
• Research infrastructures (Géant/GRID, ) 655
• Science society 80
• Strengthening the foundations of the European
  Research Area
• Support to co-ordination 270
• Support to policy development 50
• Nuclear research (mainly fusion) 1,230

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Industrial Challenges
Complexity products,supply chains
Managing partnershipsresource optimisation,
risk sharing, focus on core competencies
The boundary-lessorganisation organisational
networking, managing distributedresources
operations
Innovationrelating to products,
services,processes, supply chains,marketing
Managing knowledgeinformation, skills, customer
relationships, innovation
Securitydigital rights assets,
cybercrime,infrastructure vulnarabilities
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Information Society Technologies (IST) Priority
Themes in FP6
Communications, Computing Software
Components Microsystems
Budget 3.625 bn
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IST Work Programme 2005-2006
Call 4end Nov04 mid Mar051,120 M
Call 5May 05 mid Sept 05638 M
IST Websitehttp//www.cordis.lu/ist/
FET
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Who is Involved in IST

• Attractive RD
• High subscription success rate 16
• Industrial focus
• Multi-stakeholder collaboration
• Pan-European
• Large small companies academic research

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Proposed Elements of Future Research (FP7)
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• Collaborative research
• continuation of FP6
• European technology initiatives
• private-public partnerships aiming at world
  leadership in certain RD domains
• Basic research
• competition of individual researchers/teams
• Making Europe more attractive to best researchers
• Researcher mobility schemes
• Research infrastructures
• Research networking infrastructures
• European Research Area
• Improving coordination of natl research programs

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• Security research
• Space research

Doubling resources for research
COM(2004)101 final of 10 Feb 2004 Policy
challenges and budgetary means of the Enlarged
Union 2007-2013
Communication COM(2004)353 final, 16 June 2004
Science Technology the key to Europes future
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European Technology PlatformsTechnological or
Sectoral

• Providing the means to foster effective
  public-private partnerships
• between the research community, industry,
  financial institutions, users policy-makers
• to mobilise the research and innovation effort
  and facilitate the emergence of lead markets in
  Europe

http//www.cordis.lu/technology-platforms
Communication COM (2003)226 final, 4 June 2003
Investing in Research. An Action Plan for Europe
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Road Transport Research
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Road Transport Research Agenda 2020
Structureof StrategicResearch Agenda
http//www.ertrac.org
Membership
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Nanoelectronics Technology Platform

• Identified
• Need to contribute to a European nanoelectronics
  strategy with a vision 2020
• Need to establish a roadmap broader than the
  existing ITRS
• Need to make recommendations to policy

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1st High-Level Meeting June 2003
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Define a Strategic Research Agenda
Goal set To establish a long-term vision for
nanoelectronics in Europe
identify major challenges, objectives,
stakeholders, resources, implementation paths,
timetables, socioeconomic impact ethical issues
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http//www.cordis.lu/ist/eniac
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Embedded Systems Technology Platform

• Objective
• To achieve world leadership in intelligent
  systems
• powered and enabled by state-of-the-art embedded
  IT
• common framework for strategy, policy and RD
• Challenges
• Technology
• Complexity, design productivity, programmability,
  interoperability
• Business and society
• Open new markets (products, applications,
  services)
• Society-scale applications
• Structural
• Co-ordinated approach to funding (incl. Eureka)
• Education and training, multidisciplinarity in
  skills (h/w, s/w, control, networking, )
• Research infrastructure (Centres of Excellence,
  Centres of Competence)
• Standards, certification, open source

http//www.cordis.lu/ist/artemis
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Preparing for FP7
5 Workshops on ICT for Manufacturing

• 9 Feb 2005 New intelligent networked products
• 10 Feb 2005 The agile, wireless manufacturing
  plant
• 21 Feb 2005 Strategies for the design
  manufacturing of new products
• 22 Feb 2005 New manufacturing technologies for
  miniaturised ICT
• 23 Feb 2005 ICT to support management of
  industrial IPR
• 15 March Final consolidation workshop

ICT forManufacturing Report
FP7SpecificProgramme
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Intelligent Manufacturing SystemsA
Multilateral, Global Collaboration
http//www.ims.org
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For Further Information

• European Research
• http//www.cordis.lu/era/fp7.htm
• http//www.cordis.lu/technology-platforms
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/
• http//www.cordis.lu/calls
• Information Society Media
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/
• http//europa.eu.int/eeurope
• E-mail
• erastos.filos_at_cec.eu.int