1. Information and Communication Technologies
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
Research and Innovation in Horizon 2020
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland Galway
11th December 2013
Presented by
Gerard Kennedy
ICT National Contact Point
Enterprise Ireland

2. Please note…
…..as the European Commission has not yet published the ICT work programmes in Horizon 2020, this is a draft presentation and all objective descriptions and also especially all quoted budgets, call open, and call closure dates are tentative and relate to mid-late autumn 2013 expectations

3. Overview of presentation
Overview of Horizon 2020
ICT in Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
Future “ICT in Horizon 2020” relevant events
National Contact Points

4. ICT in Horizon 2020 - What is new?
A single programme (FP7 + CIP + EIT)
Strong focus on societal challenges (game changing for ICT…)
More innovation
Reaching out to non-traditional actors
More risk taking
Strengthened support for high-tech SMEs
More open, light & fast schemes
Horizon 2020 represents a break from the past, in order to meet the new challenges and opportunities.
It brings together all EU level research and innovation funding into a single programme, covering the current 7th research Framework Programme, the innovation activities from the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, as well as EU funding to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
These currently separate activities have been integrated to allow seamless funding of research and innovation, allowing innovative projects to be supported from the laboratory to commercial exploitation. Previously separate activities have been brought together to focus on the societal challenges such as health, clean energy and transport.
All forms of innovation will be included, including innovation in services and social innovation. Support will also be given to develop the market and legal frameworks for innovations to be deployed, such as on public procurement, standard setting and regulations.
Horizon 2020 will also provide a major simplification, with a single set of rules, less paperwork, and faster funding. The aim is to attract the best researchers and innovators regardless of where they are located.

5. A stronger, clearer focus
Excellent
Science
Industrial
leadership
Societal
challenges
Look at three pillars ES,SC and LEI as intersecting rather than as distinct pillars 5

6. ICT in H2020

7. Industrial leadership
Key technologies (e.g. advanced manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors
Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation
Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and jobs 7

8. ICT in LEIT Societal Challenges / Focus Areas
Components &Systems
(~12%)
Advanced Computing
(~3.5%)
Future Internet
(~22%)
Content Techs
(~11%)
Robotics & Smart Spaces (~8%)
ICT KETs – Micro/Nano Electronics Photonics
(~21%)
ICT for Manuf.
(~6%)
Cross cutting actions (~17%): Open Disruptive Innovation, Internet of Things, Digital SSH,
Cyber-Security, Horizontal Support to Innovation
Excellent Science / FET / RI / HPC
Societal Challenges / Focus Areas 8 8

9. A new generation of components & systems
Reinforce Europe's stronghold in electronics, microsystems and embedded systems
Capture opportunities in new growth ICT markets (smart environments, cars, homes, factories, cities)
ICT Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
a. Research & Innovation Actions (37 M€), b. Innovation Actions (17 M€), c. Support Actions (2 M€)
ICT Smart Miniaturised Electronic Systems
a. Research & Innovation Actions (35 M€), b. Innovation Actions (9 M€), c. Pre-commercial procurement action (3 M€), d. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (TOLAE)
a. Research & Innovation Actions (17 M€), b. Innovation Actions (15.5 M€), c. Technology Take-up and Innovation Support actions (3 M€), d. Innovation support through pre-commercial public procurement actions (2.5 M€) 9

10. Advanced Computing
Develop, validate and pilot customised embedded computing systems and low-power server systems
ICT 4– 2014 Customised and low-power computing
a. Research & Innovation Actions (37 M€)
b. Innovation Actions (17 M€)
c. Support Actions (3 M€)
Heterogeneous computing systems refer to electronic systems that use a variety of different types of computational units. A computational unit could be a general-purpose processor (GPP), a special-purpose processor (i.e. digital signal processor (DSP) or graphics processing unit (GPU)), a co-processor, or custom acceleration logic (application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or field-programmable gate array (FPGA)). In general, a heterogeneous computing platform consists of processors with different instruction set architectures (ISAs).
The addition of extra, independent computing resources necessarily allows most heterogeneous systems to be considered parallel computing, or multi-core (computing) systems. Another term sometimes seen for this type of computing is "hybrid computing".
Standard computer architectures like those you find in desktop PCs are general purpose and not suited to specific applications. We want to design customised systems that can be tailored to perform specialised tasks, such as real-time face recognition, automatically, without using large amounts of hardware. In embedded systems, which are small specialised systems within larger devices, such as mobile phones, the capacity to engage with apps has increased, but battery life has reduced significantly. There is a market for devices which are considerably more energy efficient.
How will you do this?
The complexity of hardware systems lies in producing the hardware itself. However, by changing the way the hardware is designed, we can ensure the hardware ends up cheap, simple and power efficient. We use FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), a technology which allows us to reconfigure hardware design, using small low energy platforms. This avoids the need to design a new chip, costing potentially millions of pounds, for every new technology.
What next?
Energy efficiency is no longer only a concern for embedded systems and companies like Google, who use computer systems that operate at the highest possible level, must now monitor their energy consumption. We are working with high performance computing specialists to find out how our technologies can be applied in these areas. Through Novocore, we are trying to bridge the gap between research and industry.
A server is a system (software and suitable computer hardware) that responds to requests across a computer network to provide, or help to provide, a network service. Servers can be run on a dedicated computer, which is also often referred to as "the server", but many networked computers are capable of hosting servers. In many cases, a computer can provide several services and have several servers running.
Servers operate within a client-server architecture, servers are computer programs running to serve the requests of other programs, the clients. Thus, the server performs some tasks on behalf of clients. The clients typically connect to the server through the network but may run on the same computer. In the context of Internet Protocol (IP) networking, a server is a program that operates as a socket listener.[1]
Servers often provide essential services across a network, either to private users inside a large organization or to public users via the Internet. Typical computing servers are database server, file server, mail server, print server, web server, gaming server, application server, or some other kind of server.[2]
Numerous systems use this client / server networking model including Web sites and services. An alternative model, peer-to-peer networking enables all computers to act as either a server or client as needed. 10

11. Future Internet (1)
Address the limitations of the current Internet and prepare for novel usage scenarios, establish the new 5G PPP
ICT 5 – 2014: Smart Networks and novel Internet Architectures
Research & Innovation Actions (24 M€)
ICT 6 – 2014: Smart optical and wireless network technologies
a. Research & Innovation actions (29 M€), b. Support actions ( M€)
ICT 7 – 2014: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services
a. Research & Innovation actions (66 M€), b. Innovation Actions (5 M€), c. Coordination and support actions (2 M€)

12. Future Internet (2)
ICT 8 – 2015: Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through cloud computing services
a. Pre-commercial procurement for public sector cloud computing services (PCP, 9 M€)
b. Public procurement of innovative cloud computing solutions (PPI, 13 M€ )
ICT 9 – 2014: Tools and Methods for Software Development
Research & Innovation Actions (25 M€)

13. Future Internet (3)
ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
a (25 M€), b (4 M€), and c (7 M€): Research & Innovation Actions, d (1 M€). Coordination and Support Actions
ICT 11 – 2014: FIRE+ (Future Internet Research & Experimentation)
a. Research & Innovation Actions (25 M€), b. Innovation Actions (5 M€), c. Coordination and Support Action (1.5 M€)
ICT 12 – 2015: Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+
a. Research & Innovation Actions (13 M€), b. Innovation Actions (5 M€)

14. Future Internet (4) ICT 13 – 2014: Web Entrepreneurship
a. Innovation Actions (6 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions
(4 M€)
ICT 14 – 2014: Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for the Future Internet
a. Research & Innovation Actions (98 M€), b. Innovation Actions (25 M€), c. Coordination and Support Actions (2 M€)

15. Content technologies and information management (1)
ICT 15 – 2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up
a. Innovation Actions (39 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions (11 M€)
ICT 16 – 2015: Big data - research
a. Research & Innovation Actions (38 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 17 – 2014: Cracking the language barrier
a. Research & Innovation Actions (4 M€), b. Innovation Actions (10M€), c. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 18 – 2014: Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative Industries SMEs
a. Innovation Actions (14 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions
(1 M€)

16. Content technologies and information management (2)
ICT 19 – 2015: Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence.
a. Research & Innovation Actions (18 M€), b. Innovation Actions (21 M€), c. Coordination and Support Actions (2 M€)
ICT 20 – 2015: Technologies for better human learning and teaching
a (9 M€). b (5 M€). Research & Innovation Actions, c. Innovation Actions (28 M€), d. Public Procurement for Innovative solutions Cofund actions (10 M€)

17. Content technologies and information management (3)
ICT 21 – 2014: Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies
a. Research & Innovation Actions (9 M€), b. Innovation Actions (8 M€)
ICT 22 – 2014: Multimodal and Natural computer interaction
a (7.5 M€) and b (16 M€). Research & Innovation Actions, c. Innovation Actions (7.5 M€)

18. Robotics
Reinforce European scientific and industrial leadership in industrial and service robotics
ICT 23 – 2014: Robotics
a. Research & Innovation Actions (57 M€) b. Innovation Actions (12 M€) c. Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) Cofund actions (5 M€)
ICT 24 – 2015: Robotics
a. Research & Innovation Actions (50 M€), b (12 M€) and c (12 M€). Innovation Actions, d. Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP, 5 M€) Cofund actions, e. Coordination and Support Actions (4 M€)
The European Robotics Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the teaming up of the robotics industry, research, academia and the European Commission to launch a joint research, development and innovation programme in order to strengthen the position of European robotics as a whole. The programme will be jointly developed by the private side (robotics manufacturers, component manufacturers, systems integrators, end users, research institutes, universities) and the public side (the European Commission). 18 18

19. Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics (1)
Strengthen the competitiveness and market leadership of the related industries in the two ICT KETs
ICT 25 – 2015: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies
a. Research & Innovation Actions (40 M€), b. Innovation Actions (7 M€), c.Coordination and Support Actions (3 M€)
ICT 26 – 2014: Photonics KET
a. Research & Innovation Actions (28 M€), b. Innovation (8 M€)
c.Coordination and Support Actions (5 M€), d. ERA-NET Cofund Action (6 M€)
ICT 27 – 2015: Photonics KET
a. Research & Innovation (30 M€) b. Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI, 5 M€ ) Cofund actions; c. Coordination and Support Actions (3 M€), d. ERA-NET Cofund Action (6 M€)

20. Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics (2)
ICT 28 – 2015: Cross-cutting ICT KETs
a. Innovation Actions, TRL 5 and 6, (13 M€) b. Innovation Actions, TRLs 5-7, (42 M€) c. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 29 – 2014 Development of novel materials and systems for OLED lighting
Research & Innovation Actions (18 M€)

21. ICT Cross-Cutting Activities
ICT 30 – 2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects
a. Research & Innovation Actions (50 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 31 – 2014: Human-centric Digital Age
a. Research & Innovation Actions (6 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 32 – 2014: Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT
a. Research & Innovation Actions (37 M€), b. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 33 – 2014: Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points
Coordination and Support Action (4 M€)

22. Horizontal ICT Innovation actions
ICT 34 – 2015: Support for access to finance (15 M€)
ICT 35 – 2014: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support
a, b, c. Innovation Actions (4 M€), d (1.5 M€), e (0.5 M€), f. Coordination and Support Actions (1 M€)
ICT 36 – 2015: Pre-commercial procurement open to all areas of public interest requiring new ICT solutions
Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP, 4 M€) Cofund actions
ICT 37 – : Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument (70% funding), 45 M€ and 45 M€ each year)

23. Fast track to Innovation – pilot
Provided at this stage only to facilitate the familiarisation with this topic.
The European Commission will provide in due course full details, together with the announcement of the relevant calls, on the Fast track to Innovation
Under this Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) pilot, proposals for innovation actions linked to any technology field will be invited, on the basis of a continuously open call (with its first cut-off date in 2015) and a bottom-up-driven logic.

24. International Cooperation actions
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
Coordination and Support Actions (3 M€)
ICT 39 – 2015: International partnership building in low and middle income countries
Research & Innovation Actions (11 M€)

25. EU-Brazil Research and Development Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure
EUB 1 – 2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects
Research & Innovation Actions (3.5 M€)
EUB 2 – 2015: High Performance Computing (HPC)
Research & Innovation Actions (2 M€)
EUB 3 – 2015: Experimental Platforms
Research & Innovation Actions (1.5 M€)

26. EU-Japan Research and Development Cooperation in Net Futures
EUJ 1 – 2014: Technologies combining big data, internet of things in the cloud
Research & Innovation Actions (1.5 M€)
EUJ 2 – 2014: Optical communications
EUJ 3 – 2014: Access networks for densely located users
EUJ 4 – 2014: Experimentation and development on federated Japan – EU testbeds

27. Budget Calls 2014 Budget, EUR million 2015 Budget, EUR million
Call H2020-ICT-2014
703.50
170.00
Call H2020-ICT-2015
583.00
Call H2020-EUB-2015
7.00
Call H2020-EUJ-2014
6.00
Contribution from LEIT ICT to call ‘H2020-FoF-2014/2015’ 34 68

28. Call Schedules 2014 H2020-ICT-2014 Opening: 11 December 2013, except:
topic ICT37 that opens on 01/03/2014 for phase 1 and phase 2
and topic ICT14 that opens on 15 July 2014.
Deadline(s): at Brussels time on the following dates:
23 April 2014 all topics except ICT14.a,ICT14.b,ICT14.c, ICT35
25 November 2014 ICT14a, ICT14.b, ICT14.c
ICT37 Phase 1: 3 cutoff dates 18/06/2014, 24/09/2014, 17/12/2014
ICT37 Phase 2: 2 cutoff dates XX/10/2014, XX/12/2014

29. Call schedules 2015 – Draft (tbc)
H2020-ICT-2015
Publication date: 15 October 2014
Deadline(s): at Brussels time for all topics 21 April 2015 except:
ICT37 Phase 1: 4 cutoff dates 18/03/2015, 17/06/2015, 17/09/2015, 16/12/2015
ICT37 Phase 2: 4 cutoff dates 18/03/2015, 17/06/2015, 17/09/2015, 16/12/2015

30. Next steps
11 December 2013: Publication of first calls, Spring 2014: closing of first call 30

31. Further Information: ICT National Contact Points
Stephen O’Reilly
Gerard Kennedy
Find out more:
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