FP7 ICT Work Programme: FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 Focus on Call 2 and Call 3 Kostas Glinos Head of Unit, Embedded Systems and Control European Commission


Presentation outline: Presentation outline Introduction to FP7 ICT Work Programme 2007 - Challenges What’s at stake and what can we build on What are the targets ICT Calls for Proposal in 2007 Objectives and implementation details Focus on Call 2 and Call 3


The renewed Lisbon strategy: Markets & Competition: Europe – A more attractive place to invest & work The internal market Improve regulation Competitive markets Expand & improve infrastructure Knowledge & innovation for growth Increase R&D investment Facilitate innovation & uptake of ICT & the sustainable use of resources Contribute to a strong industrial base Employment & Skills: Creating more & better jobs Employment & social protection systems Flexibility of labour markets Human capital: Better education & skills The renewed Lisbon strategy


Research policy: Research policy Raise R&D investment (3% objective) Create a single “market” for research (ERA) and innovation An area of free movement of knowledge, researchers & technology R&D excellence Improve human capital & skills base Build effective research infrastructures Aligning Framework Programme (FP) & national R&D programmes


FP7 Specific Programmes2007 - 2013: FP7 Specific Programmes 2007 - 2013 + EURATOM EURATOM Programme “Cooperation” Collaborative R&D, pre-defined themes, JTIs “Ideas” Frontier research, competition, individual grants “People” Human potential, mobility “Capacities” Infrastructure, SMEs, science and society Joint Research Centre (non-nuclear) NEW Total € 54.6 bn 2007-2013 € 1.3 bn € 2.8 bn € 32.3 bn € 7.5 bn 3 % 65 % 15 % 9 % € 4.7 bn 8 % € 1.8 bn € 4.3 bn


Slide6: FP7 “Cooperation”: Themes Health 6,000 Food, Agriculture & Biotechnology 1,935 Information & Communication Technologies 9,120 Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & new Production Technologies 3,505 Energy 2,300 Environment (including Climate Change) 1,900 Transport (including Aeronautics) 4,195 Socio-Economic Sciences & the Humanities 610 Space 1,430 Security 1,320 Budget [mn €] 32,315 … including


JTIs in FP7: what they are: JTIs in FP7: what they are Long term public-private partnerships In a very limited number of cases Resulting from the work of ETPs Covering one or a small number of selected aspects of R&D Combine private with European and national funding Legal basis: Article 171 of the Treaty Criteria Inability of existing instruments to achieve objectives Impact on industrial competitiveness Strength of commitment from industry Capacity to attract additional national support and leverage industry funding …


Indicative list of JTIs in FP7: Indicative list of JTIs in FP7 Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC) Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMIS) Aeronautics and Air Transport (“Clean Sky”) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Initiative GMES


FP7 Cooperation Programme: FP7 Cooperation Programme


ICT: Setting priorities: ICT: Setting priorities In line with EU’s i2010 policy for ICT the scope of FP7 Framework and Specific Programmes Responding to orientations from Programme Advisory Panel opinions from Programme Management Committee Strategic Research agendas from European Technology Platforms 100+ thematic consultation meetings


Work Programme approach and structure: Work Programme approach and structure A limited set of Challenges (areas) that respond to well-identified industry and technology needs and/or target specific socio-economic goals A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of Objectives that form the basis of Calls for Proposals An Objective (topic) is described in terms of target outcome expected impact on industrial competitiveness, societal goals,.. applicable funding schemes A total of 25 Objectives expressed within 7 Challenges


Slide12: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics 1. Network and service infrastructures 3. Components, systems, engineering 4. Digital libraries and content 5. ICT for health 6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth 7. ICT for independent living and inclusion Socio-economic goals Industry/Tech needs Work Programme 2007 Challenges


Slide13: Network and service infrastructures underpin economic progress and the development of our societies 2 billion mobile terminals in commercial operation, 1 billion Internet users, 400 million internet enabled devices A growing and changing demand for increasing user control of content/services for networking ‘things’ - TV/PC/phone/sensors/tags … for convergence: networks|devices|services - video/audio/data/voice/. Current technologies can be, and need to be improved significantly for scaling up and more flexibility for better security, dependability and robustness for higher performance and more functionality Europe is well-positioned: industry, technology and use networks equipment and services, business software, middleware, security, home systems … Challenge 1: Pervasive and trusted network & service infrastructures


Challenge 1 targets: Challenge 1 targets “Convergence” emerging but: user handles separate networks a multiplicity of devices disparate services Billions of devices connected Security and trust are “added on” Robustness/dependability a key hurdle Difficulty to cope with the fragmentation of the value chain Anywhere, anytime, any device seamless, ubiquitous broadband, mobile reconfigurable to load/use/context Trillions of devices connected “Built-in” security and trust Highly dependable software and systems Full support to distributed value chains and to the networked enterprise Today 5 – 10 years


Slide15: 1.6: New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities (ICT Call 2) – 40 M€ Advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols … coupled with validation in large-scale testing environments … Interconnected test beds … addressing networks, services, software, security … 1.7: Critical Infrastructure Protection – 40 M€ (Joint Call between ICT and Security Themes) Technology building blocks for creating, monitoring and managing secure, resilient and always available information infrastructures … that link critical transport and energy infrastructures … Challenge 1: Objectives in ICT Call 2 + Joint ICT/Security Call


Challenge 2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics: Today’s ICT systems cannot learn from experience and reason, cannot contextualise and adapt, and cannot (inter)act based on observation and learning many ICT applications cannot be developed further if there are no new breakthroughs in machine intelligence and systems engineering … Overcoming such technology roadblocks opens the doors to a wide range of opportunities in new application fields vision/sensing systems, service robots, health robots, industrial robots, multimodal and multilingual interactions ... Europe has key assets to build on world leadership in industrial robotics and systems engineering mastering of multiple disciplines: neuroscience, microsystems … excellent academic research in these fields Challenge 2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics


Challenge 2 targets: Challenge 2 targets Robots operating in ‘modelled’, ‘structured’ and ‘constrained’ environments industrial robots ‘programmed’ service robots Basic understanding of computational representations of cognitive processes first applications in cognitive vision Human-machine interactions that are rather static / passive unable to adapt to human behaviours and to empower humans in their interactions Robots, machines and systems exhibiting advanced behaviour operating with gaps in knowledge operating in open-ended env.s operating in dynamic / frequently changing environments Machines and systems that understand their users / context learning from observation adapting to context Systems that analyse and understand multimedia and multimodal digital information all senses, gestures, natural language – ‘human-in-the-loop’ Today 5 – 15 years


Slide18: 2.1: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics – 97 M€ Robots handing tangible objects … operating autonomously … in cooperation with people … grasp, manipulate, navigate … detect, recognise, classify … Robots, sensor networks or other artificial systems monitoring and controlling material and informational processes … multi-sensory data fusion and interpretation Intuitive multimodal interfaces and interpersonal communication systems … physical and cognitive capabilities, communication needs, context … Challenge 2: Objective in ICT Call 3


Challenge 3: Components, systems, engineering: Electronic systems underpin trillion Euro ICT markets Electronic systems are embedded in all artefacts of life 20-40% of the value of new products comes from embedded electronics increasing demand for lower cost, higher performance components Europe is currently leading in embedded electronics in a number of industries car safety, engine control, fly-by-wire avionics, telecom equipment, medical equipment, industrial automation … European firms also among top semiconductor manufacturers and equipment companies Europe enjoys leading positions in emerging fields photonics, plastic electronics, flexible displays, integrated micro/nanosystems … Challenge 3: Components, systems, engineering


Challenge 3 targets : Challenge 3 targets 45 nanometer node 300 mm wafers Conventional CMOS Silicon dominate ‘homogeneous’ integration Photonics applications emerging Design gap for embedded software Unable to analyse aggregate behaviours, predict and control systems Today 5 – 10 years Below the 32 nanometer node 450 mm wafers materials, processes, interconnects, design, manufacturing New materials, higher levels of integration more heterogeneous (SoC, SiP) Wider use of advanced photonics Higher productivity in the design of embedded systems / software Higher control capacity of large-scale real time embedded systems Embedded computing


Slide21: 3.5: Photonic components and subsystems – 90 M€ Core: lasers, light sources, optical fibres, image sensors) Application-specific components/subsystems: broadband networks, medical, sensing for environment, security … 3.6: Micro/nanosystems – 83 M€ smart systems: sensors, actuators, storage systems, communications, data management nano/bio/ICT: biosensors, bioMEMS, implants Integration of smart materials: textile, glass, paper Microsystems manufacturing technologies Challenge 3: Objectives in ICT Call 2


Slide22: 3.7: Networked embedded & control systems - 47 M€ Middleware platforms, supporting composability, scalability, minimal power consumption … Cooperating objects and wireless sensor networks, supporting objects cooperating under severe resource constraints … Control of large-scale distributed systems like energy, transport, manufacturing systems: mastering bandwidth limitations, delays, fading links, unavailable nodes; closing the control loop … Challenge 3: Objectives in ICT Call 2


Challenge 4: Digital libraries and content: Challenge 4: Digital libraries and content Growing load of information and content and increasing demands for knowledge and skills in less than 10 years, the average person will be managing terabytes of videos, music, photos, and documents every day digital content production | consumption: from “few-to-many” to “many-to-many” models Today’s technology provides limited tools for access/interaction, development/creation, delivery/diffusion and preservation of content & knowledge Europe, with its unique cultural heritage and creative potential, is well placed to take advantage of technology developments and their use


Challenge 4 targets : Challenge 4 targets Limited access and usability content not efficiently exploited interactivity limited to smart menus Tools for capturing and editing still in their infancy Content is not personalised Learning tools primarily focus on the delivery of content Today 5 – 10 years “Digital libraries” widely available easy to create, access, interpret, use and preserve content and knowledge cost-effective, reliable, multilingual Advanced authoring tools Effective semantic-based systems and knowledge management Mass-individualisation of learning experiences with ICT (mid-term); adaptive and intuitive learning systems (longer term).


Slide25: 4.1: Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning – 50 M€ Large-scale libraries, preservation: access, search, management … Technology-enhanced, adaptive and intuitive learning: personalisation, communities-based, via games … Challenge 4: Objectives in ICT Call 3


Slide26: 4.2: Intelligent content and semantics – 50 M€ Authoring, workflow, personalisation: interactive content, mixed reality / immersive consumption of adaptive content … Semantic foundations: probabilistic modelling, approximate reasoning … Knowledge mgmt systems: extracting meaning from info … Challenge 4: Objectives in ICT Call 3


Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare : Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare Rising demands on healthcare by 2050 close to 40% of the Union’s population will be over 65 years growing expectations of citizens for better care increasing mobility of patients and health professionals need to respond to risks for emerging diseases By 2010, ICT for Health spending may account for up to 5% of the EU’s total health budget, up from just 1% in 2000 need to access, understand and securely manage huge amounts of health information ICT is also supporting progress in medical research and a shift towards evidence-based medicine European businesses have every opportunity to become leading global players in the new ICT for Health industry


Challenge 5 targets : Challenge 5 targets Citizens, healthy or under treatment, cannot monitor their health no access to comprehensive and secure Electronic Health Records Health professionals do not have fast and easy access to patient-specific data @ point-of-need to support diagnosis or plan clinical interventions Health authorities do not make sufficient use of information processing systems Today 5 – 10 years Innovative systems and services for personalised health monitoring. e.g. wearable/portable ICT systems Efficient systems for point-of-care diagnostics e.g. alert and management support ICT-based prediction, detection and monitoring of adverse effects e.g. data mining Tools for patient-specific computational modelling & simulation of organs or systems (longer term) patient-specific healthcare early diagnostics & predictive medicine


Slide29: 5.3: Virtual physiological human – 72 M€ Patient-specific computational modelling and simulation: multi-level computational models, toolbox for simulation/visualisation … Data integration and new knowledge extraction: coupling scientific research data with clinical data, data mining, image processing … Clinical applications and demos: surgery simulation, disease prediction, drugs safety … Challenge 5: Objective in ICT Call 2


Challenge 6: ICT for Mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency : Challenge 6: ICT for Mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency Growing demand for transport services more congestion, higher energy consumption, pollutant emissions Accidents causing fatalities and injuries over 40.000 fatalities on the EU roads every year Increasing demand for natural resources 1-2% per year for energy and growing water consumption Natural and industrial disasters has doubled in one decade killing 500.000 people and causing 700 billion of damage Europe’s industry is one of the most competitive automotive, transportation, civil protection, equipment supply …


Challenge 6 targets : Challenge 6 targets Safety of vehicles and their energy efficiency have improved, but the “zero-accident scenario” is still a distant goal current vehicle active safety (driver warning, hazard detection …) is still limited to stand-alone systems Risk management systems provide isolated solutions no co-ordinated ICT-triggered alert of rescue and security forces Infrastructures are not sufficiently energy efficient transport, buildings, production plants … Today 5 – 10 years Intelligent Vehicle Systems secure and reliable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure comm systems optimised traffic management at large scale + mobility services Fully integrated management systems / shared data to monitor, warn and react to environmental and other risks Intelligent monitoring of energy production, distribution, trading and use


Slide32: 6.2: ICT for cooperative systems – 48 M€ Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication for real-time traffic management and active safety support … Field operational tests: efficiency, quality, robustness, user-friendliness … 6.3: ICT for the environmental management and energy efficiency – 54 M€ Collaborative systems for environmental management: monitor, assess, report, respond … ICT for energy-intensive systems: optimise energy use profiles, monitor energy production, trading, distribution, consumption … Challenge 6: Objectives in ICT Call 2


Challenge 7: ICT for Independent Living and Inclusion : Challenge 7: ICT for Independent Living and Inclusion Between 1998 and 2025 the proportion of the population classified as elderly will increase from 20% to 28% more people with high disability rates smaller productive workforce Need for a paradigm shift in health and social care and new requirements for inclusion, accessability and usability Complexity and lack of accessibility and usability of many ICT-based products and services is a major barrier for many people A major economic opportunity for European industry


Challenge 7 targets : Challenge 7 targets Research on technology for independent living is in its infancy systems for inclusion assistive technology Increasing complexity and limited usability of many products and services eAccessibility Lack of interoperability between existing inclusive systems Lack of interoperability between assistive technologies and mainstream ICT Today 5 – 10 years ICT-based solutions extending independence and prolonging active participation in society ICT solutions that help reduce the 30% of the population currently not using ICT user-friendly systems Cost-effective, interoperable solutions enabling seamless and reliable integration of devices and services


Slide35: 7.2: Accessible and inclusive ICT – 43 M€ Embedded generalised accessibility support: mainstream accessibility … Simulation of user interaction: optimise accessibility Assistive systems based on non-invasive brain-to-computer-interaction: augment performance of people with disabilities … Environments facilitating social inclusion of marginalised young people: e.g. Web 2.0, gaming technology, media-enhanced learning … Challenge 7: Objectives in ICT Call 2


Future and Emerging Technologies: Objective Pathfinder role: prepare for future ICT directions in the WP Avoid ‘tunnel vision’ in FP7, by exploring unconventional ‘minority’ options and opportunities off the beaten track To foster trans-disciplinary research excellence in emerging ICT-related research domains FET Open Scheme Open Call for continuous submissions To help emerging research communities to organise and structure their research agenda FET Pro-active Initiatives Fundamental cross-cutting long-term challenges in ICT: ICT Call 3: Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT Embodied Intelligence (targeting “long tail” of robotic service market) ICT forever yours (targeting dependability, security and longevity of digital systems) Future and Emerging Technologies


Slide37: International cooperation To pave the way for strategic partnerships in view of developing global standards and interoperable solutions and strengthening EU competitiveness To widen the diffusion of the information society, especially in developing countries and strengthened the EU policy for development Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points One proposal including officially appointed NCPs To improve NCP service across Europe To help to simplify access to FP7 calls To lower the entry barriers for newcomers To raise the quality of submitted proposals Horizontal support actions


ICT Call 1 – Opened: 22 December 2006 Closed: 8 May 2007: ICT Call 1 – Opened: 22 December 2006 Closed: 8 May 2007


… ICT Call 1: 22 Dec 2006 - 8 May 2007 + FET Open – continuous, close 31 Dec 2008: … ICT Call 1: 22 Dec 2006 - 8 May 2007 + FET Open – continuous, close 31 Dec 2008


ICT Call 1: Proposals received: 1836 Ineligible: 13 (1%) Below threshold: 999 (54%) Above threshold: 824 (45%) Retained for negotiation: 318 (17%) ICT Call 1


ICT Call 1: ICT Call 1


ICT Call 2 – Open: 12 June 2007 Close: 9 Oct 2007: ICT Call 2 – Open: 12 June 2007 Close: 9 Oct 2007


ICT Call 3 – Open: 4 Dec 2007 Close: 8 April 2008: ICT Call 3 – Open: 4 Dec 2007 Close: 8 April 2008


More Information: More Information FP7: http://ec.europa.eu/fp7/ict Presentations of each objective: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/ events/koln_2007 FP6: http://cordis.europa.eu/ist