Transcript IST in FP6 Context, rationale, Content and instruments

EU IST - FP6
Opportunities in the 5th call
Athens – 13 April 2005
OMG TC Meeting
Enterprise Interoperability Information Day
Francesco Nachira
European Commission
DG-INFSO - Unit D5 : ICT for Enterprise Networking
Head of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
Overview
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FP6 - Instruments ( IP - NoE - STREPs - CA - SSA )
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FP6 - Previous Calls - Workprogr. 2003-04 - lessons
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FP6 - Call 5 - Workprogramme 2004-06 - open
S.Obj
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ICT for Enterprise networking
– Clusters
– Interoperability Cluster
– Digital Ecosystem Cluster
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Research trends and FP7
Instruments in IST
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The IST Priority funds five sorts of project
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Integrated Projects (IPs) and
Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREPs)
are aimed at generating, demonstrating and validating new
knowledge by means of research and development
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Networks of Excellence (NoEs)
are aimed at the durable integration of the participants’
activities/capacities
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Coordination Actions (CAs) and
Specific Support Actions (SSAs)
are aimed at supporting collaboration and coordination, and
other activities such as conferences and studies
Instruments in IST - IPs
• Integrated
Projects - IPs
Integrated projects
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- objectives
IPs are designed to generate the knowledge required to
implement the priority thematic areas of FP6
 by integrating the critical mass of activities and resources needed
 to achieve ambitious, clearly defined scientific and technological
objectives of a European dimension
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Each IP should
 integrate the types of activities needed to obtain the goals
 integrate the critical mass of resources needed to obtain the goals
 integrate elements of the development chain to attain high-impact
goals
 support industry-academia collaboration including SMEs
Integrated projects - activities
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Activities in an Integrated project may cover a broad
spectrum e.g.
 research and technology development activities
 demonstration activities
 technology transfer or take-up activities
 training activities
 dissemination activities
 knowledge management and exploitation
 consortium management activities
 cooperation with other programmes (e.g. Eureka)...
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An Integrated Project comprises
 a coherent set of activities
 and an appropriate management structure
Integrated projects - experience
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FP6 experience of Integrated projects:
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Purpose: Ambitious objective driven research with a
‘programme approach’
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Target audience: Industry (incl. SMEs), research institutions.
Universities – and in some cases potential end-users
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Typical duration: 36-60 months
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Optimum consortium: 10-20 participants
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Total EU contribution: €4-25m (average around €10m)
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Flexibility in implementation: Yearly update of workplan
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Possibility for competitive calls for enlargement of consortium
Integration along the innovation cycle
Adoption
Best practice
Take-up, trials
IP
Industry driven research
Basic research
Time
Integrated projects
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Scale of ambition is limited, reflected in limited activities,
duration, size of consortium more typical of a STREP
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Goals are ambitious. The proposers include key industry
players. A full range of activities covering a substantial part of
the development chain is envisaged. Broad industry sector
impact is foreseen. SME participation has been
sought/achieved. Effective project management plans are in
place
Instruments in IST - NoE
• Networks
• NoEs
of Excellence
Networks of excellence - objectives
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NoEs are an instrument to overcome the fragmentation of the
European research landscape in a given area
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Their purpose is to reach a durable restructuring/shaping and
integration of efforts and institutions or parts of institutions
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The success of an NoE is not measured in terms of scientific
results but by the extent to which, NoEs remove barriers to
integration; to durably "institutionalise" the links between the
institutions involved, restructuring the researchers activities
and organisation structure in a given field
Networks of excellence - activities
The Joint programme of activities contains a range of “additional” activities:
• Integrating activities
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coordinated programming of the partners’ activities
sharing of research platforms/tools/facilities
joint management of the knowledge portfolio
staff mobility and exchanges
relocation of staff, teams, equipment
reinforced electronic communication systems
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Joint research activities
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a programme of joint research to support the network’s goals
– Development of new research tools and platforms for common use
– Generating new knowledge to fill gaps in or extend the collective knowledge portfolio
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Activities to spread excellence
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training researchers and other key staff
• dissemination and communication activities
• networking activities to help transfer knowledge to trams external to the network
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Networks of excellence - experience
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FP6 experience of NoE projects:
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Purpose: Durable integration of participants’ research
activities
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Target audience: research institutions, universities, Mainly
indirectly: industry – trough governing boards etc
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Typical duration: 48-60 months (but indefinite integration!)
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Optimum consortium: 6-12 participants
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Total EU contribution: €4-15m (average around €7m)
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Flexibility: Yearly update of the work plan
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Possibility to add participants through competitive calls
Networks of excellence
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Proposal for ad hoc co-operation between organisations for a
specific purpose - no evidence of durable integration. The
participants are going to continue to work as they have
always done with no significant changes of structures,
portfolios and organisations
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The research area is fragmented and would gain in
excellence by re-structuring; and all the participants intend to
undertake a major effort to re-structure and re-organise the
way research in the area is carried out in Europe and
establish durable integration of their research capacities
Instruments in IST - STREPs
• Specific
Targeted Research Projects
• STREPs
Specific Targeted REsearch Projects -obj.
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Designed to generate the knowledge required to improve
European competitiveness and to meet the needs of society
or Community policies:
 by improving existing or developing new products, processes or
services and/or
 by proving the viability of new technologies offering potential
economic advantage
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May combine any of the following types of activities:
 Targeted, well defined and precisely focused research and
technological development
 Demonstration component(s) as appropriate
 Project management
Specific Targeted REsearch Proj.experience
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FP6 experience of STREP projects:
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Purpose: Objective driven research more limited in scope
than an IP
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Target audience: Industry incl. SMEs, research institutes,
universities
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Typical duration: 18-36 months
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Optimum consortium: 6-15 participants
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Total EU contribution: €0.8-3m (average around €1.9m)
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Fixed workplan and fixed partnership for duration
Specific Targeted REsearch Projects
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The work is unoriginal, not scientifically and technically
excellent
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A well-focused and well-planned research project by capable
partners which will extend the state-of-the-art
Instruments in IST - CAs
• Co-ordination Actions
• CAs
Coordination actions - objectives
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Designed to promote and support the networking and coordination of research and innovation activities at national,
regional and European level over a fixed period
 by establishing in a coherent way coordinated initiatives of a range of
research and innovation operators, in order to achieve improved
integration of the European research
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May combine the following two types of activities
 Co-ordination activities
 Consortium management activities
 (Coordination actions do not conduct S&T research !)
Coordination actions - activitives
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Each CA shall consist of a work plan, incorporating all or
some of the following types of mid/long term collaborative
activities:
• Organisation of conferences, of meetings;
• Performance of studies, analysis;
• Exchanges of personnel;
• Exchange and dissemination of good practice;
• Setting up of common information systems
• Setting up of expert groups;
• Definition, organisation, management of joint or common initiatives
Coordination actions - experience
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FP6 experience of CA projects:
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Purpose: Co-ordination of research activities
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Target Audience: Research institutions, universities, industry
incl. SME
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Typical duration: 18-36 months
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Optimum consortium: 13-26 participants
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Total EU contribution: €0.5-1.8m (average around €1m)
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Fixed overall workplan and partnership for the duration
Coordination actions
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The work is “stand alone”, it doesn’t involve real cooperation
and networking
The added value of coordinating the activities isn’t evident, or
it isn’t to the benefit of IST
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Clear added value to the IST Priority. Projects/activities to be
coordinated are ongoing, they are doing quality work and
their motivation to participate is clear
Instruments in IST - SSAs
• Specific
• SSAs
Support Actions
Specific support actions - objectives
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Designed to
 underpin the implementation of the programme
 complement the other FP6 instruments,
 help in preparations for future Community research and technological
development policy activities and
 stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of SMEs, small
research teams, newly developed and remote research centres, as
well as those organisations from the Candidate Countries in the
activities of the priority thematic areas.
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May combine the following two types of activities
 Support activities
 Consortium management activities
 (Specific support actions do not conduct S&T research !)
Specific support actions - activities
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Each SSA shall have a work plan, which may consist of one
or more (as appropriate on a case by case basis) of the
following activities:
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Conferences, seminars, working groups and expert groups;
Studies, analysis;
Fact findings and monitoring;
Trans-national technology transfer and take-up related services;
Development of research or innovation strategies;
High level scientific awards and competitions;
Operational support and dissemination, information and
communication activities.
SSA proposal may be presented by a consortium or a single
organisation, from any country or countries
Specific support actions - experience
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FP6 experience of SSA projects:
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Purpose: Support to programme implementation, preparation
of future actions, dissemination of results
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Target audience: Research organisations, universities,
industry incl. SME
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Typical duration: 9-30 months
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Optimum consortium: 1-15 participants
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Total EU contribution: €0.03-1m (average around €0.5m)
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Fixed overall workplan and partnership for the duration
Specific support actions
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no evident benefit to the objectives of the IST Priority as
described in the IST Workprogramme
The proposal is for research or cooperation activity
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A well-planned support action with clear and achievable aims
which directly supports the work of the IST Priority
The strategic objectives: what do they describe?
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For each objective, the WP:
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Defines the goals to be achieved with RTD in Europe
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Focuses on the parts that need to be addressed with the EU effort
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Defines the types of instruments that need to be supported
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Identifies the links with member-states activities and policies
IST Workprogramme 2003- 04: Approach
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A two year WP
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A limited number of calls: Three over two years
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Concentration on a limited set of « Strategic Objectives »
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12 “Strategic Objectives” in 2003,11 in 2004
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~2/3 of budget targeted to new instruments
IST Workprogramme - budget phasing
Planning over 4 years
Year
2003
2004
2005
2006
Indicative
Budget
835,000
891,000
935,000
964,000
Two calls drawing
Calls per year on 2003 and 2004
budgets
One call
drawing
on 2005
budget
Second WP
(covers also all topics of SP)
with updated focus
First WP covers all topics of the SO
IST Calls 2003-04 (Behind us)
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IST Call 1
– Closed April 2003 – funding € 1070m
– 236 projects negotiated and launched
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IST Call 2
– Closed October 2003 – funding € 525m
– 148 projects under negotiation or launched
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Joint Call with production technologies
– Closed April 2003 – funding € 60m
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FET (Future and Emerging technologies) Open
– Continuous call – funding € 60m
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IST Call 3
– Closed 22 Sep 2004 – funding € 28m
IST Calls 2005-06
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Joint Call with nano-, materials- and productiontechnologies
– Closed 14 October 2004 – funding € 180m
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FET (Future and Emerging tech) – Proactive Initiatives
– Closed 22 Sep 2004 – funding € 80m
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IST Call 4
– Closed 22 March 2005 – funding € 1120m
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IST Call 5
– Will be published 17 May 2005
Will close
22 Sep 2005 – funding € 638m
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IST Call 6
– To be published (end 2005 ? ) - small funding
IST Calls 2003-04 : Participation
Academia
Industry
Non-profit org.
IST Calls 2003-04 : Concentration
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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
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Setting up & managing larger projects : a challenge
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
Concern over SME participation
• Integration of effort in an enlarged Europe important
• International co-operation
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IST WP 2005-06: Main principles &
objectives
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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
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Preparing the start of FP7
– Developing new fields, etc.
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
Strategic objectives in Call 5
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2.5.1
Photonic Components
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2.5.2 Micro/nano based subsystems
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2.5.3 Embedded Systems
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2.5.4 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services
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2.5.5 Software and Services
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2.5.6 Research networking testbeds
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2.5.7 Multimodal Interfaces
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2.5.8 ITC for Networked Business
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2.5.9 Collaborative Working Environments
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2.5.10
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2.5.11 eInclusion
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2.5.12 ICT for Environmental Risk Management
Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources
Strategic objectives in Call 5
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IP
2.5.1 Photonic Components - 47m€
• 2.5.2 Micro/nano based subsyst. 58m€
• 2.5.3 Embedded Systems
68m€
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Concepts, methods and tools for design sys
Middleware and platforms
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2.5.4 Advanced Grid 62m€
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2.5.5 Software and Services 67m€
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2.5.6 Research netw’g testbeds 18m€ X
2.5.7 Multimodal Interfaces 54m€
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2.5.8 ITC for Networked Business 46m€
Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
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Extended products and services
Horizontal actions (legal issues, IPRs...)
2.5.9 Collab. Working Environm. 40m€
• 2.5.10 Access to cultural… 36m€
• 2.5.11 eInclusion 29m€
• 2.5.12 ICT for Envir.Risk Mngm. 40m€
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NoE
STREP
CA
SSA
Advanced GRID technologies, systems and
services
Call 5
62 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Advance towards the knowledge Grid and complete virtualisation
of Grid resources
– Reduce the complexity of Grid-based systems
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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
– Support competitive position of EU software industry, notably
SMEs, in globalised service-oriented markets
– Open and interoperable platforms, methodologies, middleware,
standards and tools
– Design and management of complex systems
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Engineering, management and provision of services and sw
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 into service-based organisations
Call 5
Collaborative working
environments
40 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Next generation collaborative working environments, boosting innovation
and productivity
– Enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst humans and
machines
– Distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualized working environments
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Concepts, methods and core services for distributed collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative work in rich virtualised environments
Applications for collaborative work in content-rich, mobile and fixed
collaborative environments
Joint research activities with national programmes
Standardisation activities
Call 5
ICT for Networked Business
46 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Software solutions adaptable to the needs of local/regional SMEs, supporting
organisational networking and process integration
– Distributed collaborative ambient intelligence-based network-oriented
systems for efficient, effective and secure product and service creation and
delivery
 Focus
– Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
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• open-source distributed self-adaptive environment and models enabling SMEs to
cooperate for design, development of flexible and adaptable components
interoperable with proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing distribution of business solutions and
knowledge
– Extended products and services
• decentralised architectures ; new approaches to business processes
– Horizontal actions
• IPR and legal issues raised by os, networked and collaborative paradigms
Research in ICT for Networked Business INFSO
Mission of “ ICT for Enterprise Networking Unit (D5)
Support research in ICT deemed to be
crucial for the delivery of distributed
and collaborative ambient intelligencebased solutions for the product lifecycle
and of innovative inter- and intraorganisational systems and services in
Special emphasis will be placed on
digital “business ecosystems”,
new intelligent and networked
products,
and the interoperability of
enterprise sw and applications
the enterprise environment.
Stimulate targeted international cooperations and
strengthen the co-ordination of
research activities and
the convergence of research and
innovation policies,
at national, regional and EU levels
Orientation
* technology driven <-> policy driven
* long-term vision + intermediate results
* industry-driven <-> user needs driven
* ICT supporting
growth of business ecosystems and
enterprise networking
European Commission
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DG Information Society
FP6 cluster of ICT for Enterprise networking
CLUSTER 1
CLUSTER 2
CLUSTER 3
Tech. for Digital EcosystemsReference Models and Technologies Amb.Int. Tech. F or
supporting growth & innov . for Business Networking
the Product lifecy cle
DBE
10.5
L I A S O N S A T I N E ECOLEA D
1 .5
1 .5
9.7
MYCA REVENT
C RO S S WO RK
ILIPT
10.0
1 .9
M O SQ U I T O
9.0
I ntelligent L ogis tic for
Innovat ive Product
1 .8 Technologies
E P RI P aradigms + open- s ourc e -cSomponentT A RT
bas ed
c omponet- bas ed infraM Y T RE A S U RY
s truc ture enabling a
5 .3
network of loc al
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Digital Ecosystems
network- bas ed indus try M obility and
1 .0
(Virt ual Organisat ions, Collaborat ive W ork
for S M E s
Breeding environment…) in E uropean V ehic le
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C O D E S N E T .6
V -C E S
0 .9
S P I D E R-WI N
1 .7
V E RI T A S
I S T -BO N U S
V E -F O RU M
1 .0
Framework f or trust and c ontrac t management in dynamic virtual organis ations
TRUSTCOM
6.3
N O - RE S T
0 .7
A THENA
14.4 Int eroperability in Business through
referenc e arc hitec ture, methods and infras truc ture
N oE inInt eroperability
INTEROP
6.5
= 2 5 0 k€
NoE
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STREP
SSA
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CLUSTER 1
CLUSTER 2
CLUSTER 3
Tech. for Digital EcosystemsReference Models and Technologies Amb.Int. Tech. F or
supporting growth & innov . for Business Networking
the Product lifecy cle
DBE
10.5
L I A S O N S A T I N E ECOLEA D
1 .5
1 .5
9.7
MYCA REVENT
C RO S S WO RK
ILIPT
10.0
1 .9
M O SQ U I T O
9.0
I ntelligent L ogis tic for
Innovat ive Product
1 .8 Technologies
E P RI P aradigms + open- s ourc e -cSomponentT A RT
bas ed
c omponet- bas ed infraM Y T RE A S U RY
s truc ture enabling a
5 .3
network of loc al
C ollaborative and
X BRL - in-E urope
Digital Ecosystems
network- bas ed indus try M obility and
1 .0
(Virt ual Organisat ions, Collaborat ive W ork
for S M E s
Breeding environment…) in E uropean V ehic le
E mergenc y N etworks
C O D E S N E T .6
V -C E S
0 .9
S P I D E R-WI N
1 .7
V E RI T A S
I S T -BO N U S
V E -F O RU M
1 .0
Framework f or trust and c ontrac t management in dynamic virtual organis ations
TRUSTCOM
6.3
N O - RE S T
0 .7
A THENA
14.4 Int eroperability in Business through
referenc e arc hitec ture, methods and infras truc ture
N oE inInt eroperability
INTEROP
6.5
= 2 5 0 k€
NoE
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STREP
SSA
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Virtual enterprises - past research
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Period
• End 1990s - 2003
ICT -> Virtual Enterprise
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Concepts
• Value ChainDevelopment
networking
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Lessons learnt
• Virtual enterprises and enterprise networks
(excerpt
from
former IST
work programme)
• Evolution of virtual
enterprise
throughout
life cycle
• Recurring topics: trust, integration and interoperability
of innovative IT-based tools
to model the interaction between companies
• Focus
forming networking
an extended or virtual enterprise based on
• Inter-enterprise
•a distributed
Collaboration services
concurrent engineering and co-design approach,
• Mediators
and covering all phases of the product life cycle.
• introduction of the concept of networking on the territory
supporting SMEs and local development
-> local cluster ( business ecosystem ) , skill, knowledge …
European Commission
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DG Information Society
Interoperability Research
Past, present, future
• Initial Workshops organised by e-Business Unit
• Summer 2000 – Autumn 2001
• Initial division of playing field
• IDEAS project (www.ideas-roadmap.net)
• June 2002- June 2003
• Future research challenges, gaps, roadmaps in interoperability
• Research activities in FP6
• Autumn 2003 – present
• Integrated Projects: ATHENA, TrustCoM
• Network of Excellence: INTEROP
• Specific Targeted Research Project: NO-REST
• Others: Satine, DIP, ...
• Future research in FP7
European Commission
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DG Information Society
Enterprise Interoperability
D5 Interoperability Objectives
• Mission
• to achieve seamless and dynamic operability of business
applications for emerging and future forms of business
collaborations
• Objectives
• formulate strategic directions (issues, objectives, actions, roadmap)
• establish research foundations for interoperability of future business
applications
• achieve wide acceptance capable of creating significant impact
• supporting the European industry in leading these actions
European Commission
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DG Information Society
Enterprise Interoperability Cluster
• Objective
• Enabling networked business by giving European enterprises the
means to seamlessly and securely interoperate with each other
• Areas of research
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Frameworks, reference architectures
Interoperability Infrastructure
Enterprise Modelling
Service-oriented architecture
Trust management
Contract management
• Major Projects in the Cluster (as of April 2005)
• 2 Integrated Projects: ATHENA, TRUSTCOM
• 1 Network of Excellence: INTEROP
• 1 Specific Targeted Research Project: NO-REST
European Commission
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DG Information Society
Evolution in ICT-adoption:
Increased complexity in business networking
F.Nachira
European Commission - Directorate-General Information Society
Unit D5 : ICT for Business - Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
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Business Ecosystems
the local conditions shaping the economy
Technical
Infrastructure
“create
create aa
favorable environment
for business
business”:
[Kok
rep.]
for
and
people
business ecosystem
a socio-economic
ecosystem
Governance
&
Industrial
Policy
Human Capital,
Knowledge &
Practices
F.Nachira
Legal Framework
& Financial
Conditions
European Commission - Directorate-General Information Society
Unit D5 : ICT for Business - Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
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Digital Ecosystems
the technical infrastructure supporting
the Business Ecosystems
Computing
& Telecom.
Infrastructure
Community
Structured
Architecture
Protocols &
Mechanisms
F.Nachira
Knowledge of
Business &
Organisational
Models
European Commission - Directorate-General Information Society
Unit D5 : ICT for Business - Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
Enterprise
Interoperability
In the context of
development
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The Digital Ecosystem integrated approach
RESEARCH INNOVATION DEPLOYMENT
Crucial condition for economic
lead to
growth is a broad deployment
and use of ICT
Competitiveness,
market & internal
by enterprises and public
efficiency
institutions…
improve
improve
[NLpres]
Cooperation &
innovation networks
catalyse
Growth
provide
resources
“Digital Ecosystem
Infrastructure”
ICTs
improve
shape
& foster
support
encourage
make
viable
New organizational
& business models
Biology
Open Source
Evolutionary
infrastructure
enhances
supports
supports
Policy
Derivative work from
P.Dini - London School of Economics
F.Nachira
European Commission - Directorate-General Information Society
Unit D5 : ICT for Business - Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
<>
November 2004
Technologies for Digital Ecosystems cluster
present, past, future
• Workshops organised 2002
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Spring + Autumn 2002
Discussion paper “Towards a network of digital business
ecosystems fostering local development”
• FP6 - call1 - 2003
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3 IP proposals
DBE project started in November 2003
• Results
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Six regions acting as Digital Ecosystem pilot
initial sw results to be released in open-source (May)
contribution in innovations and standards (SBVR)
concept of ecosystem “contaminated” platforms
mainstream in industry and development policy
strategies
• Future research ./.
F.Nachira
European Commission - Directorate-General Information Society
Unit D5 : ICT for Business - Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”
<>
November 2004
Call 5
ICT for Networked Business - FP6
call 5
46 MEuro
Key Objectives
– Software solutions adaptable to the needs of local/regional SMEs, supporting
organisational networking and process integration
– Distributed collaborative ambient intelligence-based network-oriented
systems for efficient, effective and secure product and service creation and
delivery
 Focus
– Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
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• open-source distributed self-adaptive environment and models enabling SMEs to
cooperate for design, development of flexible and adaptable components
interoperable with proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing distribution of business solutions and
knowledge
– Extended products and services
• decentralised architectures ; new approaches to business processes
– Horizontal actions
• IPR and legal issues raised by os, networked and collaborative paradigms
¿ Research Trends in ICT for Enterprise
Networking ?
 Service
Oriented Enterprise - extended interoperability
– Business processes dynamicaly assembled and rearranged
– Business processes are context-aware, application neutral, and
self-organising
– Business logic, revenue logic, legal issues are formalised - MDA
– Process composition mechanisms tools ( ‘orchestration tools’)
integrate composite applications
 Towards
Digital Ecosystems
– Natural process: complexity + consolidation of IT industry
– Dominant suppliers and/or Communities define frameworks,
standards, and infrastructures for Service Oriented Architecture
– Enterprises will maintain relationships with an ecosystem
instead of with individual suppliers
(is will be open ? danger of dominant vendor lock-in)
FP 7 - Themes and activities
6
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Technology Pillars
e.g. Software, Grids, trust and dependability
e.g. Embedded Systems
e.g. Nano/electronics
...
1
Nano/Bio/Cogno convergence
4
Multi-technology, Multi-disciplinary Integration
– e.g. Personal environments
– e.g. Robotic Systems
– ...
 4 Application
Poles
– e.g. ICT for trust and confidence
– e.g. ICT supporting business and industry
• New forms of dynamic netw., interoperable co-operative business models &
processes, digital eco-systems strengthening capacity of SME clusters…
• manufacturing of miniature and integrated ICT products…
– …
More information
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FP6:
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http://www.cordis.lu/ist/
http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/instruments.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/index_en.html
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IST/eEurope/ERA:
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http://www.cordis.lu/ist - http://www.cordis.lu/era/home.html
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Technologies for Digital Ecosystems:
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http://www.digital-ecosystems.org
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IP and NoE in „ICT for Enterprise Networking“
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ATHENA http://www.athena-ip.org
DBE
http://www.digital-ecosystem.org
ECOLEADhttp://ecolead.vtt.fi
INTEROP http://www.interop-noe.org
TRUSTCOM
http://www.eu-trustcom.com
Help and advice
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Partner search facilities
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A help desk on IPR issues
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http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org
Economic and Tech. Intelligence ETI projects (SME support)
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http://www.partners-service.cordis.lu/
http://www.ideal-ist.net
http://sme.cordis.lu/economic/eti_projects.cfm
A network of National Contact Points
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ncps.htm
thank you and good luck : francesco.nachira
cec.eu.int