1. Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – European Business Summit, 16 March 2006 Rudolf Haggenmüller - Chairman ITEA 2

2. ITEA 2 - 2 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 ITEA 2 builds on the success of ITEA Principal achievements of ITEA First ever major initiative of European industry and national authorities to recognise the emerging importance of “embedded and distributed systems” Highly successful execution –Shared vision of the future of software-intensive systems (SiS), underpinned by the ITEA technology roadmap – a landmark; –Solid project portfolio of some 85 projects and 9,500 person- years, with wealth of results and successes; –Major contributions to European co-operation and cross- fertilisation, bringing together more than 400 partners from large industry, SMEs, and academia from across Europe; –Development of an efficient and effective organisation with lean and industrial strength procedures, and with overheads of well under 1%.

3. ITEA 2 - 3 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 ITEA 2 vision ‘Europe to maintain leadership in embedded software-intensive systems and services building on key European strengths and industries’ Solutions / services Differentiation software Communications infrastructure Real-time infrastructure Recognising and responding to: the move from a product-oriented to a services-oriented world ‘time-to-market’, i.e. INNOVATION, is make or break the even more crucial role of SMEs and academia strong ERA cooperation being mandatory (seizing FP7 opportunity) digital convergence is the name of the game

4. ITEA 2 - 4 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 Strategies (1) Changing the battleground in ICT primarily to the so-called ‘secondary industries’, building on key European strengths and industries – i.e. to embedded software and services; Mounting an industry-driven pre-competitive R&D&D initiative – now even stronger – for a sustained build-up of European capabilities in software-intensive systems and services; Maximise and leverage the growing importance of SMEs to increase the momentum of the initiative, from an already high participation level (‘best in class’).

5. ITEA 2 - 5 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 Strategies (2) Foster and leverage the impact of academia/research, first of all in continuing the solid application-oriented grounding of the programme but, in addition, intensifying co-operative research and transfer Push the envelope on programme agility aggressively across all levels and all procedures to address better the overarching issue of time-to-market; first and foremost: speed-up CALL process.

6. ITEA 2 - 6 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 Ambition ITEA highlightsITEA 2 ambitions Number of (annual) calls 8 8 Effort in person-years 9,500 20,000 Expenditure (€ billion) 1.2 3+ Number of projects 85 200 Number of participants 400 - 45% SMEs - 28% research institutes and universities 800 - 50% SMEs - 25% research institutes and universities Exploitation (references to products/results for internal use/licences/open sources) 450 1,000 Standardisation actions 150 250 Dissemination (publications/conferences) 1,650 4,000

7. ITEA 2 - 7 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 Partners in ITEA High participation level of SMEs 23 countries 400+ partners in 85 projects SME Research institutes & universities Large industries SMEs = 16% of total resources 28% 27% 45%

8. ITEA 2 - 8 Laying the foundations for a software- intensive Europe with participation of SMEs EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 Favourable conditions for SMEs Favourable contribution rules: first five person-years per year are free of charge Major effort to organise and manage ITEA 2 is carried by large industries A board seat (European Federation of High-tech SMEs) Lean organisation, lean process: starting point is a project outline. After approval the consortium is invited to write a full project proposal. Excellent opportunity for SMEs to gain expert-knowledge and to share risks and costs in large high-tech projects, in a trusted legal environment

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