Towards FP7 K' Glinos Information Society and Media Directorate General European Commission Patras,

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Towards FP7K. GlinosInformation Society and
Media Directorate GeneralEuropean
CommissionPatras, 17 June 2005
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Outline

• FP7 Proposal
• ICT in FP7
• FP7 Implementation
• Next Steps

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FP7 Four inter-linked objectives

• Gain leadership in key fields by supporting
  cooperation
• Essential  core business, high European added
  value
• Stimulate research excellence through competition
• Attracting the best brains, frontier research
• Develop and strengthen Human Capital of research
• Improve research and innovation capacity

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FP7 approach Continuity New Impetus

• Continuity
• Thematic priorities
• Scaling up ERA coordination actions
• Scaling up Marie Curie actions
• Scaling up SME measures
• Seven years duration
• New Impetus
• Doubling of budget per year
• European Research Council
• Joint Technology Initiatives
• New research infrastructures
• New management schemes

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FP7 structure
Cooperation Predefined themes, refined FP6
instruments
Ideas Frontier research, competition,
individual grants
People Human potential, mobility
Capacities Infrastructure, SMEs, science and
society,
Joint Research Center non-nuclear

EURATOM
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FP7 Specific Programmes
Cooperation 44735 m (61)
Ideas 11942 m (16)
People 7178 m (10)
Capacities 7536 m (10)
JRC 1824 m (3)
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Cooperation Collaborative Research Themes
1. Health
2. Food, Agri, Biotech
3. Information and Communication Technologies
4. Nano, Materials, Production
5. Energy
6. Environment
7. Transport (including Aeronautics)
8. Socio-econ
9. Security and space
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Cooperation Collaborative Research Themes

Nano, materials, production 4865 m (11)
ICT 12756 m (28.5)
Energy 2951 m (7)
Environment 2552 m (6)
Transport 5981 m (13)
Food, agri, biotech 2472 m (6)
Socio-econ research 798 m (2)
Space and security 3987 m (9)
Health 8373 m (18)
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Cooperation Collaborative Research

• Under each theme there will be sufficient
  flexibility to address
• Emerging needs
• Unforeseen policy needs
• Support will be implemented across all themes
  through
• Collaborative projects
• Networks of Excellence
• Coordination/support actions
• Joint Technology Initiatives
• Coordination (ERA-NET ERA-NET Article 169)

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Cooperation Joint Technology Initiatives

• In a limited number of cases
• Covering one or a small number of selected
  aspects
• Criteria include
• Inability of existing instruments to achieve
  objectives
• Degree/clarity of definition of objectives
• Financial and resource commitment from industry
• Capacity to attract additional national support
• and leverage current or future industry funding
• Nanoelectronics, Embedded Systems,

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Cooperation Coordination of programmes

• ERA-NET and ERA-NET-PLUS
• Community participation in national research
  programmes (based on Art. 169), with criteria
  including
• Efficiency of Art. 169 as the most appropriate
  means for achieving objectives
• Presence of pre-existing national research
  programmes
• Critical mass (size and number of
  programmes/activities)
• Ambient Assisted Living, Embedded Systems,

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FP7 Capacities Research Capacity 6 Parts

• 1. Research Infrastructures

2. Research for the benefit of SMEs
3. Regions of knowledge
4. Research potential
5. Science in society
6. Activities of intl cooperation
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FP7 Capacities Research Capacity 6 Parts
Research infrastructures 3987 m (54)
Research for benefit of SMEs 1914 m (25)
Regions of knowledge 160 m (2)
Intl cooperation 359 m (5)
Science in society 558 mé (7)
Research potential 558 m (7)
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FP7 Capacities Research Infrastructures

• Support to existing research infrastructures
• Research e-infrastructures
• GÉANT, Grids, Super-/high-end-computing
• Transnational access
• Integrating activities
• Support to new research infrastructures
• Construction of new research infrastructures and
  major updates of existing ones
• Nanoelectronics cleanrooms
• Design studies

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FP7 Ideas Frontier Research
ERC European Research Council
Commission
Scientific Council

• Approval of work programme, as defined by the
  Scientific Council
• Instruction to implement work programme
• Approval of annual implementation report
• Information to programme committee

• Preparation of work programme
• Set up of peer review pool of reviewers,
  nomination of review panels, evaluation
  guidelines
• Oversight of the evaluation procedure
• Annual scientific report

Externalised tasks

• Information and support to applicants
• Reception / eligibility of proposals
• Organisation and execution of evaluation
• Selection decision
• Scientific and financial follow-up of contracts
• Annual implementation report

Created by Commission decision
Under the responsibility of the Commission
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FP7 People Human Potential

• Initial training of researchers
• Marie Curie Networks
• Life-long training and career development
• Individual Fellowships
• Co-financing of national/international programmes
• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
• Industry-Academia Scheme
• International dimension
• Outgoing International Fellowships Incoming
  International Fellowships International
  Cooperation Scheme Reintegration grants
• Specific actions
• Excellence awards

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Outline

• FP7 Proposal
• ICT in FP7
• FP7 Implementation
• Next Steps

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ICT RD Europe Lags

• ICT represents gt30 of total RD budget in all
  major OECD countries

Source IDATE, 2002

• Gap in ICT research, half of total gap with the
  US in RD spending

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ICT in FP7 Priorities Striking the Right
Balance

• Reinforce leadership and open new fields
• Reinforce areas where Europe has recognised
  strengths
• Build capacity to seize new opportunities as they
  emerge
• Mainstream ICT and Push the limits of technology
• Boost innovation from ICT use and new forms of
  content
• Widen the performance and functionality of
  technology
• Combination of market or applications-pull and
  technology and science-push
• Balance between basic and applied research
• Flow of ideas from theory to practice and from
  academia to markets.

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Main Themes and Activities

• ICT Technology Pillars
• pushing the limits of performance, usability,
  dependability, cost-efficiency
• Integration of Technologies
• integrating multi-technology sets that underlie
  new functionalities, services and applications
• Applications Research
• providing the knowledge and the means to develop
  a wide range of ICT-based services and
  applications
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• supporting research at the frontiers of knowledge

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ICT Technology Pillars

• Nano-electronics, photonics and integrated
  micro/nano-systems
• Ubiquitous and unlimited capacity communication
  networks
• Embedded systems, computing and control
• Software, Grids, security and dependability
• Knowledge, cognitive and learning systems
• Simulation, visualisation, interaction and mixed
  realities
• New ICT perspectives drawing on other science
  and technology disciplines

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Integration of Technologies

• Personal environments
• personal communication and computing devices,
  wearables, implants
• Home environments
• communication, monitoring, control, assistance
• Robotic systems
• advanced autonomous systems cognition, control,
  miniaturisation
• Intelligent infrastructures
• tools making infrastructures that are critical to
  everyday life more efficient, easier to adapt and
  maintain

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Applications Research

• ICT meeting societal challenges
• for health to improve inclusion for mobility
  in support of the environment for governments
• ICT for content, creativity and personal
  development
• new media and content technology-enhanced
  learning digital cultural assets
• ICT supporting businesses and industry
• business processes collaborative work
  manufacturing
• ICT for trust and confidence
• identity, authentication, authorization, privacy,
  rights

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Outline

• FP7 Proposal
• ICT in FP7
• FP7 Implementation
• Next Steps

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Implementation principles

• Orientations in the FP, SP and rules for
  participation
• Details in the work programmes
• content
• Scientific and technological goals
• Scope of activities
• Results expected
• types of funding schemes
• Financial contributions
• Participants (industry, universities, )
• Activities (RD, demo, training, )
• available budget

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FP7 Cutting Red Tape

• Reducing the burden of administrative and
  financial rules and procedures
• Lowering the number of requests to participants
• Simplifying the Commissions controls
• Improving the financial schemes and modalities of
  funding

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FP7 Management

• More outsourcing
• Collaborative research proposals admin and
  logistics management, evaluators invitations and
  payments, financial viability checking,
  statistics, IT tools
• European Research Council executive agency,
  maybe 171 later to increase autonomy
• Human resources and mobility actions
• SME measures
• Joint management
• Ad-hoc management structures (Art. 169, 171, )

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Outline

• FP7 Proposal
• ICT in FP7
• FP7 Implementation
• Next Steps

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Timetable
Call 4
Call 5
Call 1
Call 2
Call 3
Call 6
FP6
FP7
2007 - 2013
Communication on FP7 orientations
Adoption
FP7, SPs, RfPproposals
FP7 Work Programmes Calls
New Financial Perspectives
Communication on new financial perspectives
Agreement
Legislative proposals
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Tentative Roadmap for FP7

• 2005
• 6 April..Commission - Adoption of FP7 proposals
• 18 AprilCouncil - Exchange of views
• 7 June..Council - Orientation debate
• 21 Sep.Commission - Proposals on SPs Rules
  for Participation and Dissemination
• 11 Oct...Council - Exchange of views on SPs
  RfP
• 23 Nov..Commission - Proposals under Art.
  169/171
• 28-29 NovCouncil - Orientation debate on SPs
  RfP
• 12-15 DecEP 1st reading on FP

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Tentative Roadmap for FP7

• 2006
• Feb/Mar...Council - Common position on FP
  EP - 1st reading on RfP
• April.Common position on RfP
• May/JuneEP - 2nd reading on FP Opinion on SPs
  2nd reading on RfP (earliest)
• June.Council - Adoption of FP RfP (earliest)
• July..Council and EP - Adoption of FP RfP
• July..Council - Adoption of the SPs
• Oct...Commission - Adoption of
  Workprogrammes
• Nov..Commission - Publication of 1st calls