Overview of the Framework 7 ICT Draft Work Programme Presented at the University of Limerick, 17 th September 2008 By Gerard Kennedy National Contact Point ICT

Summary  FP7-ICT and complementary ICT work programmes  Overview of the draft FP7-ICT work programme  Brief overview of the draft 2009 ICT Policy Support work programme  Irish Universities/Institutes of Technology and UL performance to date  EI financial supports  Sources of information, future events, contact details

Overview of FP7 ICT and complementary ICT work programmes Time to Market FP7-ICT JTI’s* (ARTEMIS, ENIAC) ICT PSP** Deployment 2-3 Years5-10 Years Technology Risk Upstream R&D Downstream R&D Large scale trials (use existing technology) *Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI’s) **Policy Support Programme (PSP)

FP7 ICT Draft Work Programme for  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

FP7 ICT Challenges

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)

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)

Challenge 2: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics (9%)  2.1 Cognitive Systems and Robotics (4,6)  2.2 Language-based interaction (4)

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)

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 )

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)

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)

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)

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

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

FET Open in 2009/10 Work Programme 7 May Sept 08 3 Sept Jan 09 7 Jan May 09 6 May Sept 09 Short STREP submission CA & full STREP cutoff 20 Jan May Sept Jan 10 Batch5 Batch 6 Batch 7 Batch 8 Indicative budget: 61 M€ for the 4 batches

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

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)  8.9 Identifying new research topics, assessing emerging global Science and Technology trends in ICT for future FET proactive initiatives (4, 5, 6)

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 other’s facilities  General Accompanying Measures  Coordination of ICT R&D skills in Europe  Coordination of shared research facilities or excellence centres  Strengthening cooperation in ICT R&D in an enlarged Europe  Secondment of PhD or post-graduate students and researchers

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 R&D in an enlarged Europe (4)

ICT PSP Draft Work programme 2009 (~100 M€)  The following themes will be implemented using Pilots, Thematic Networks and Best Practice Networks where appropriate  Theme 1: ICT for health, ageing and inclusion (15%)  Theme 2: Digital Libraries (25%)  Theme 3: ICT for government and governance (18%)  Theme 4: ICT for energy efficiency and environment (8%)  Theme 5: Multilingual Web (14%)  Theme 6: Public Sector information (9.5%)  Theme 7: Internet evolution and security (including RFID) (6%)  Theme 8: Open innovation, user experience and living labs (4%)

Work programmes : Draft call plan all ICT areas FP7 -ICT ICT PSP JTI’s, (TBC) Q4 Call5 ICT PSP JTI’s Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q Call 4Call 6 FET OPEN (Jan’09-Dec’10) JTI’s ICT/Energy

FP7 ICT Draft Call schedules CallOpenClose Joint ICT-ENERGY8 th December st March 2009 Call 418 th November th April 2009 Call 5June/July 2009September/October 2009 Call 624 th November th April 2010 FET Open (Continuously open)1 st January st December 2010

Irish University and Institute of Technology funding In Calls 1 and 2

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

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

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Future Events  FP7 Legal & Financial Workshop 18 th & 19 th September, Dublin  2nd Concertation Meeting of ICT-FP7-FP6 The Network of the Future 30 th Sept – 2 nd Oct.  How to write a Competitive Framework Proposal, 2 nd October, Dublin  ICT 2008, November, Lyon

Contact details Stephen O’Reilly Gerard Kennedy