Transcript Information Society Technologies

Information about the
Fifth IST Call
Matteo Banti
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General
Software Technologies
The components of FP6
INTEGRATING EUROPEAN RESEARCH
ANTICIPATING S/T NEEDS
in the knowledge society
and global change
Citizens and governance
Research for policy
support
Sustainable development
Food safety and health risks
Aeronautics and space
Nanotechnologies, intelligent mat.,
new production processes
Information society technologies
for health
Genomic and biotechnology
PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS
Specific SME activities
Specific international cooperation activities
JRC activities
STRENGTHENING THE
STRUCTURING THE ERA
Research
and
innovation
Human
resources &
mobility
Research
infrastructures
Frontier research,
unexpected
developments
FOUNDATIONS OF ERA
Science and
society
Coordination
of research
activities
Development
of research/
innovation
policies
FP6 budget breakdown
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Focussing and Integrating
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Genomics
Information Society Technologies
Nanotechnologies, int..
Aeronautics and space
Food quality and safety
Sustainable development
Citizens and governance ..
Anticipation of S&T needs
• Anticipating needs
• SMEs
• Specific INCO
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Strengthening ERA foundations
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Structuring ERA
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–
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Research and Innovation
Human resources
Research Infrastructures
Science/Society
Joint Research Centre
2255 M€
3625 M€
1300 M€
1075 M€
685 M€
2120 M€
225 M€
~100M€ for GEANT/GRID
555 M€
430 M€
315 M€
320 M€
290 M€
1580 M€
655 M€
80 M€
760M€
16270 M€
~200M€ for GEANT/GRID
IST in FP6 - objectives & strategy
 Main objectives
– Establishing Europe’s leadership in the technologies at the heart of
the knowledge economy and society
– Strengthening Europe’s competitiveness & technology base
– Building the information and knowledge society for ALL
 Strategy
– Concentration and focus, building critical mass
– Visionary, forward looking (longer term / high risk)
– Combine flexibility with greater speed in implementation
– Scope of activities: Core technologies & “pull-through” applications
FP6 IST Calls Timeline
2003
2004
2005
Call 1
Call 2
Call 3
Call 4
Call 5
Apr 03
Oct 03
Sept 04
Mar 05
Sept 05
IST WP 2005-06: Main principles & objectives
 Completing
the investment in the FP6 objectives
– Adapting content of WP2003-04 in order to take
account of:
• evolving context and technology progress
• lessons learnt from the response to the first calls
 Preparing
the start of FP7
– Developing new fields, etc.
IST WP 2005-06: Consultations and Collection of Input

Wide consultation
– ISTC - IST Committee
– ISTAG - IST Advisory Group
– Programme Consultation Meetings
– Web-based consultations
- 5 year evaluation of IST
- Review of new FP6 instruments

Changes in context and
technology trends
Portfolio analysis
– IPPA - Integrated Programme Portfolio Analysis
– Responses to previous Calls
– Experience from past and on-going projects
Lessons
learned
IST Calls 2003-04 : Concentration

Concentration of effort and building critical mass
– Total number of projects selected :
3 times less than FP5 for an equivalent budget
– Average budget of Integrated Projects :
5 times larger than FP5 projects

Setting up & managing larger projects : a challenge
Average project funding
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
FP6 IP
FP6 NoE
FP6 average
FP5 all
instruments
FP6 STREP
FP6 CA/SSA
IST Calls 2003-04 : Integration
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More intensive collaboration between various actors
– Integrated Projects: 2-3 times as many partners per project
– From industry, academia and public research labs
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Concern over SME participation
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Integration of effort in an enlarged Europe important
 International co-operation
Average number of participants FP5-FP6
FP6 NoE
35
30
25
FP6 average
FP6 IP
20
15
10
5
0
FP5 all
instruments
FP6 CA
FP6 STREP
FP6 SSA
Lessons learnt from previous calls

Oversubscription in some fields
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SMEs participation
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Integration of the ICT research effort in an
enlarged Europe
– Need for more focus and more precision
– Improving but can be strengthened
– Participation of Member States that joined the EU
recently and of Associated Candidate Countries below
expectations

International co-operation
– Domain-specific approaches are needed
IST WP2005-06: Focussing
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Sharper descriptions of each SO

Precisions on the use of the instruments within
each SO

Budget distribution between instruments
adapted to each SO
IST Strategic Objectives 2005-06
- ICT for Security
- ICT for Health
- eInclusion
- eSafety
- environmental risk mgmt
- learning
- culture
- networked businesses
- ICT for governments
- collaborative work
- GRID-based systems
Applied IST research for major societal and economic challenges
‘anywhere, anytime, natural access to ICT
based services and applications’
Communication, computing
& software technologies
- mobile comms
- Broadband comm
- networked audiovisual systems
- software & services
- embedded systems
- research networking testbeds
Components
& microsytems
-nanoelectronics
- photonics
components
- Micro/nano
integration
-Micro/nano
sub-systems
- integration in enlarged Europe
Knowledge
& interface technologies
- Semantic- based
knowledge
and content
- multi-modal
interfaces
- cognitive
systems
Call 5 key facts
 Published:
17 May 2005
 Closes:
21 September 2005 (17:00 Brussels time)
 Total
Indicative budget: 638 M€
 Pre-allocation
 Indicative
SO
of 90% of budget
budget distribution between Instruments: per
Call 5 Strategic Objectives
Strategic Objective
Inst.
Budget
Photonic components
65/35
47
Micro/nano based sub-systems
70/30
58
Embedded Systems
60/40
68
Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services
70/30
62
Software and services
60/40
67
Research networking testbeds
65/35
18
Multimodal Interfaces
60/40
54
ICT for Networked Businesses
55/45
46
Collaborative Working Environments
70/30
40
Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources
40/60
36
eInclusion
50/50
29
ICT for Environmental Risk Management
60/40
40
FET Proactive Initiative
0/100
9
Call 5
Photonic components

47 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Advanced materials, solid-state sources and micro- and nano-scale
photonic devices
– Integration of photonic functions in micro/nanoelectronics components
– Application contexts:
• “Information technologies for health care and life science”
• “Communications and Infotainment”
• “Environment and security”
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Focus
– Manufacturing technologies and device concepts
– Hybrid and monolithic photonic integration technologies
– Photonic systems on a chip
– Advanced components for optical networks, and low-cost components
for broadband wireless/wired access;
– Advanced sources
Call 5
Micro/nano-based subsystems
Integrated micro/nanosystems for key products & applications
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R&D focus
– Healthcare: Integrated systems for point-of-care
diagnosis, monitoring & drug delivery
– Autonomous miniaturized (micro-)robotic systems
– Mass storage systems
– Novel 3D Visualisation
Other
– Validation of Micro-Nano Technology enabled subsystems in
different applications combining subsystem development with
application RTD
– Roadmap, CA, SSA to prepare research agendas
– (“Micro-nano-bio-cogno” and “Smart Integrated Systems”)
58 MEuro
Call 5
Embedded systems
68 MEuro
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Key Objectives
– Hardware/software systems embedded in intelligent devices
– Cost-efficient ambient intelligence systems with optimal
performance, high confidence, reduced time to market and faster
deployment
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Focus
– System Design
• Model-based system design, validation and testing.
• Design methods, programming models and compilation tools for
reconfigurable architectures.
– Networked Embedded Systems
• Middleware for wireless objects
• Scalable and self-organising platforms
– SME embedded tool developers and vendors
Call 5
Advanced GRID technologies, systems and services
62 MEuro

Key Objectives
– Advance towards the knowledge Grid and complete
virtualisation of Grid resources
– Reduce the complexity of Grid-based systems

Focus
– Grid Foundations: Architecture, design and development of
technologies and systems
– Grid-enabled applications and services for business and
society
– Network-centric Grid operating systems
– Co-ordination of research activities in Member and
Associated States in the Framework of ERA
Call 5
Software and services
67 MEuro

Key Objectives
– Engineering and management of software systems, services
and applications
– Open and interoperable platforms, methodologies,
middleware, standards and tools.

Focus
– Engineering, management and provision of services and
software
– Principles, methodologies and tools for design, management
and simulation of complex software systems
– Development, deployment, evolution and benchmarking of
open source software.
– Software systems with properties such as self-adaptability,
flexibility, robustness, dependability and evolvability.
– Support actions contributing to the evolution of the software
industry
Call 5
Research Networking Testbeds
18 MEuro

Key Objectives
– User-driven large scale testbeds for preparing future
upgrades of the infrastructure deployed across Europe

Focus
– Integrating, testing, validating and demonstrating new fixed
and wireless networking technologies
– Provisioning of open test infrastructures for third party
researchers
– Fostering interoperability of solutions across different
scientific and industrial disciplines
– Developing roadmaps and strategic guidance for
infrastructure development in Europe
Call 5
Multimodal interfaces
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Key Objectives
– Natural and easy to use interfaces providing:
54 MEuro
• Intelligent communication
• Multi-modalities
• multilingual capabilities

Focus
– Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual
environment
– Mechanisms for selecting cognitively combinations of interface
modalities according to preferences and context
– Multilingual communication systems for unrestricted domains
– Portability of new languages
-> Emphasis is on user modelling, system design, visual recognition and
tracking, language understanding and spoken language translation
Call 5
ICT for Networked Businesses
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Key Objectives
46 MEuro
– Software solutions supporting organisational networking and
process integration
– Distributed and collaborative network-oriented systems for
efficient, effective and secure product and service creation and
delivery

Focus
– Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
• open-source environment ; design, development and take-up of flexible
and adaptable software applications
– Extended products and services
• decentralised architectures ; new approaches to business processes
– Horizontal actions
• new legal challenges raised by networked and collaborative paradigms
Call 5
Collaborative working environments
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40 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Next generation collaborative working environments
– Enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst humans and
machines
– Distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualized working environments
Focus
– Concepts, methods and core services for distributed collaboration at
work
– Flexible management of services
– Tools for collaborative work in rich virtualised environments
– Services for seamless, stable, dependable and scalable applications
for collaborative work
– Validating of applications for collaborative work in content-rich,
mobile and fixed collaborative environments
– Standardisation activities
Call 5
Access to and preservation of cultural
and scientific resources
36 MEuro

Key Objectives
– Support the accessibility and use over time of digital cultural
and scientific resources.
– Support the emerging complexity of digital cultural and
scientific objects and repositories
– Explore how to preserve the availability of digital resources
over time

Focus
– Conceptualisation and representation of digital cultural and
scientific objects
– Application of leading-edge technologies (knowledge
technologies, VR, visualisation).
– Methods and systems for guaranteeing the long-term
preservation of digital objects.
– Test-beds and systems supporting multi-sourced and multiformatted resources.
Call 5
eInclusion
29 MEuro

Key Objectives
– mainstream accessibility in consumer goods and services to
ensure equal access, independent living and participation for all
in the Information Society.
– develop next generation assistive systems

Focus
– Experience and Application Research
– Large scale demonstrators (smart environment, next generation
mobiles, Digital TV ..)
– Innovative solutions for persons with cognitive disabilities.
– Support and co-ordination actions:
• Federating the fragmented assistive technology industry
• Structuring the co-operation among centres for accessibility resource and
support.
• Technology solutions to meet the challenges posed by the ageing
population.
Call 5
ICT for Environmental Risk Management
40 MEuro

Key Objectives
– ICT aspects of services for GMES (Global Monitoring for the
Environment and Security) end-users
– Monitoring, preparation and response phases of
environmental risk/crisis management

Focus
– GMES in-situ monitoring systems, in particular based on selforganising, self-healing, ad-hoc networking of sensors
– Public safety communication (alert systems, communication
to/from citizen and rapidly deployable emergency
telecommunications systems)
– Support to early adoption of common open architectures for
full interoperability
Call 5
FET Proactive Initiatives
9 MEuro
Simulating Emergent Properties in Complex Systems
Reccomendations to Proposers
 Study the Workprogramme text carefully
– - Choose the SO(s) most relevant to your proposal
 Contact each relevant SO early
– Is the SO Open in this call?
– Is my proposal in scope?
is intense – most SO are oversubscribed,
only the best proposals get through
 Competition
 Avoid the pitfalls
– Submit on time!
– Check for completeness
– Make the reviewers life easy
For Further Information
General FP6:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/
http://www.cordis.lu/
IST:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist
IST infodesk
E-Mail : [email protected]
Fax : +32 2 296 83 88
Call 5 Strategic Objectives contact persons
Strategic Objective
Contact person
Photonic components
[email protected]
Micro/nano based sub-systems
[email protected]
Embedded Systems
[email protected]
Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services
[email protected]
Software and Services
[email protected]
Research networking testbeds
[email protected]
Multimodal Interfaces
[email protected]
ICT for Networked Businesses
[email protected]
Collaborative Working Environments
[email protected]
Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources
[email protected]
eInclusion
[email protected]
ICT for Environmental Risk Management
[email protected]
FET Proactive Initiative
[email protected]