IST Information Day Applications and services for the mobile user and worker GRID-based systems for solving complex problems eInclusion Research networking testbeds Athens, 2 June 2003 National Documentation Centre

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IST Information DayApplications and services
for the mobile user and workerGRID-based systems
for solving complex problems eInclusionResearch
networking testbedsAthens, 2 June 2003National
Documentation Centre

• Georgios TSELENTIS
• European Commission, IST programme
• New Working Environments
• (georgios.tselentis_at_cec.eu.int)

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European RD a fragmented landscape

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ERA-a new context for EU supported RTD

• Moving to a European level Research policy
• Strengthen co-operation between National and EU
  Activities
• Improve links between National and EU policies
  and schemes
• Take into account enlargement
• Development of a shared vision on European RTD
• Potential for co-funding arrangements
• Realising ERA will require
• New thinking more strategic and goal oriented
• New approach integration, concentration,
  critical mass and flexibility
• New scope taking account of the international
  dimension of RTD
• greater awareness of whos doing what
• New instruments Integrated Projects (IPs)
  Networks of Excellence (NoEs)

FP6 is not business as usual!
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Defining the SOs Five main groups (1)

• Reinforce leadership where Europe has
  demonstrated strengths, e.g.
• mobile communications and services, broadband
  communications
• micro-opto electronics
• networked audiovisual systems...
• security and dependability,
• Seize new opportunities that arise from the AmI
  vision and address weaknesses / threats critical
  for its realisation, e.g.
• multimodal interfaces, semantic-based knowledge
  handling,..
• embedded systems, integration of sensing
  actuating devices, ...
• Knowledge and computing GRIDs

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Defining the SOs five main groups (2)

• Continued support to leading / challenging
  applications, responding to emerging needs, e.g.
• eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning and culture,
• entertainment and leisure content
• business support tools, networked
  organisations,eWork...
• Support to research at the frontier of knowledge
• FET open
• FET proactive
• Cognitive science, KM
• Support to infrastructure development
• Research networking test beds
• Open development platforms
• IST for safety in transport, risk management,..

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Research context in FP6
Ambient Intelligence (AMI) a vision Ambient
Connectivity a need eInfrastructure Towards a
New Generation of Networks
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From Infrastructure to Applied research
Policies eInclusion, eEconomy

• eInclusion
• New working environment

Applied Research
Technology Development

• Grid-technology/middleware
• for complex problem solving

Infrastructure Testbeds

• Grid IPv6 Testbeds
• Research Infrastructure

• Future and emerging technologies

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Call 2 of the IST Priority

• Publication 17.06.03
• Closure date 15.10.03
• Indicative budget 525 Meuro
• 80 of the budget pre-allocated per area 20 to
  be defined
• drawing mainly from 2004 commitment budget
• Distribution per instrument
• 2/3 for IPs NoEs
• 1/3 for STREPs CAs SSAs
• One stage evaluation procedure no anonymity

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Indicative call sequence topics
Technology components
Integrated systems
Sectorial Applications
Services and Products engineering 2010 Joint
call with priority 3
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Areas in Call 2 and pre-allocated budget
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Applications and services for the mobile user and
worker
Call 2

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• services being seamlessly accessed and provided
  anywhere, anytime
• enabling new business models, new ways of
  working, improved customer relations and
  government services
• Research Tasks
• services that deploy wearable interfaces,
  enabling context-sensitivity, user profiling
• and personalisation, multiple modes of
  interaction
• collaboration of multi-location and mobile
  workers
• major hurdles for deployment of services for the
  mobile user

60 MEuro
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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User and Worker

• Objective
• To foster the emergence of rich landscape of
  innovative applications and services for the
  mobile user and worker and to support the use and
  development of new work methods and collaborative
  work environments. These should be based on
  interoperable mobile, wireless technologies and
  the convergence of fixed and mobile communication
  infrastructures. Such applications and services
  will enable new business models, new ways of
  working, improved customer relations and
  government services in any context.
• The target applications and services will be
  capable of being seamlessly accessed and provided
  anywhere, anytime and in any context.

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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User and Worker 2 Main Focal Points

• Focus 1 The integration of technologies into a
  wide range of innovative mobile and multimodal
  applications and services including workplace
  designs that enhance creativity and productivity
• Intelligent, adaptive and self-configuring
  services that deploy wearable interfaces and
  enable automatic context-sensitivity, user
  profiling and personalisation in a trusted and
  secure environment as well as multi-lingual and
  multi-cultural presentation, and multiple modes
  of interaction
• Novel workplace designs and methods of work
  organisation that enable collaboration of
  multi-location and mobile workers and can
  increase participation in, and access to work in
  remote and rural areas

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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User and Worker 2 Main Focal Points

• Focus 2 Addressing the major hurdles for the
  deployment of applications and services for the
  mobile user so as to ensure
• openness and interoperability of service
  development and provision environments, including
  location-based services compatible with existing
  and emerging satellite infrastructures (e.g.
  Galileo),
• interoperability of services and roaming across
  heterogeneous networks and service environments
  (e.g. working, billing, payment, ticketing and
  accounting services)
• seamless access to corporate and government
  resources

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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User Worker

• The vision
• Bring the users, people, to the
  foreground.... to the centre of our
  attention
• building trustful technologies for the background
  
• making technology adapt to people needs
• Moving to an era where ..Our surrounding is
  the interface to IST applications services
• Exploring beyond the PC, screens keyboard
  interfaces...
• Enabling multi-sensorial dialogues ..
• supported by computing networking
• everywhere, embedded in everyday objects

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Mobile user and worker scenarios
Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User Worker

• Increased importance of
• mobility and location independence
• time critical and ad-hoc collaboration (get
  together to solve a problem, a task, a business
  opportunity)
• context awareness (geo-social context language,
  culture etc., specific setting time, place)
• sharing knowledge and resources
• added value (created in whatever way is
  appropriate, no longer dictated by organisational
  relations and boundaries)
• Challenges
• How to create and manage shared workspaces with
  the above characteristics?
• How to integrate these characteristics in a
  seamless way?
• What about standardisation?

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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User Worker
Competence nodes networking
MManagement response of a given task in a given
time point is given to the competence node which
understands the customers problem best
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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User Worker

• Network society moves us from the era of
  organisations to the era of organisation
• Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) concept
  interoperability, commonly agreed processes,
  standardization
• Knowledge Management and Semantic web
• Grid-type of information infrastructure (utility)
• p2p
• context-sensitive technologies (mobility,
  location, user identification etc)
• trust and security technologies

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Technical vision for the SEEM
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Call 2 Applications and Services for the mobile
User WorkerUseful information

• Contact person(s)
• Michael ZIEGLER (Michael.Ziegler_at_cec.eu.int)
• Bror SALMELIN (Bror.Salmelin_at_cec.eu.int)
• (INFSO-MOBILE-USER-AND-WORKER_at_cec.eu.int)
• News Events
• 26 June 2003, Brussels Information Networking
  Day Applications services for the mobile user
  and worker
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/so/mobile-services/event
  s/announcement_agenda.htm
• 25 June 2003, Brussels Next-generation Mobile
  and Location-independent Collaborative e-Work
  Beyond the State-of-the-arthttp//www.cordis.lu/i
  st/events/workshop_on_collaboration.htm
• Past events
• 29 April 2003, Consultation Workshop,, Brussels
  Ambient intelligence_at_Work Next-generation Mobile
  and Location-independent Collaborative Work -
  Beyond the state-of-the-art
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/events/consultation-work
  shop.htm

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GRID-based systems for complex problem solving
Call 2
45 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• computing and knowledge Grids and peer-to-peer
  approaches to solving complex problems
• Research Tasks
• next generation GRID security, programming
  environments, resource management business
  models for new services, customisable middleware,
  interoperability with existing GRID and
  Webservices
• enabling application technologies modelling,
  simulation, datamining, visualisation, process
  control, remote operation collaborative working
  in dynamic virtual organisations

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems

• Objectives
• To expand the potential of the Grid and
  peer-to-peer approaches to solving complex
  problems which can not be solved with current
  technologies in application fields such as, but
  not limited to, industrial design, engineering
  and manufacturing, health, genomics and drug
  design, environment, critical infrastructures,
  energy, business and finance, and new media.
• To overcome present architectural and design
  limitations hampering the use and wider
  deployment of computing and knowledge Grids and
  to enrich its capabilities by including new
  functionalities required for complex problem
  solving. This should help the larger uptake of
  Grid type architectures and extend the concept
  from computation Grids to knowledge Grids,
  eventually leading to a semantic Grid.

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems 2 Main Focal Points

• Focus 1
• Architecture, design and development of the next
  generation Grid beyond extensions of existing
  technologies, leading to open standards, and
  including security built-in at all levels,
  programming environments, resource management
  economic and business models for new services,
  customisable middleware, interoperability with
  existing Grid and Webservices. An integrated and
  comprehensive approach including stake holders
  from all relevant levels is required.

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems 2 Main Focal Points

• Focus 2
• Enabling application technologies for the
  solution of complex problems in domains requiring
  a Grid-based approach, including next generation
  tools and environments for modelling, simulation,
  datamining, visualisation, process control,
  remote operation and collaborative working in
  dynamic virtual organisations. To exploit
  synergies and avoid duplication, communities in
  different application domains having similar
  requirements shall join forces and share common
  layers.

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems The Challenge (1)
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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems The Challenge (2)
Moving Grid from e-Science to Industry

• Promote Grid research to
• Solve complex problems with high economic and
  societal impact
• Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science
• Ease access and use of Grids

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems The Challenge (3)
Grids for Complex Problem Solving
ApplicationSector 1
ApplicationSector 3
ApplicationSector 2
ApplicationSector n
ApplicationSector 1
Applications e-business, e-health,
e-gov, e-learning, environment
Grids for CPS focus
Generic enabling application technologies Tools
and environments for simulation, data mining,
knowledge discovery, collaborative working, ...
Next generation Grid Architecture, design and
development addressing security, business
models, open source/standards,interoperability,
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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems The Challenge (3)
Generic Enabling Application Technologies
Sector 1applic.
Sector 2applic.
Sector Napplic.
complexproblemsolving
PSE/Portal
PSE/Portal
PSE/Portal
. . .
Sector-specificcomps.
Sector-specificcomps.
Sector-specificcomps.
Scope of future projects
enablingtechnologies
enabling technologieshigh level Grid services -
generic components -
Low level Grid services
Infra-structure
Grid-type environment
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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems
Grids empowered
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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems
Project examples

• GRASP GRID based Application Service Provision
• Pilot applications in biomedicine finance
• Shift to industrial/business use of the Grid
• Industrial strength service provision middleware
  for Grids
• resource management
• security
• Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Quality of
  Service (QoS)
• business models and pricing
• GRIP GRID Interoperability Project
• Grid Interoperability enabling applications and
  virtual organisations to use simultaneously
  different Grid middleware based on common open
  standards
• Contribute to standardisation (Global Grid Forum
  GGF)
• Pilot applications in meteorology molecular
  biology

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems

• Conclusions
• Grid technologies will revolutionise the Internet
  of tomorrow as the Web did for the Internet of
  today
• Grid reseach represents a key priority in IST-FP6
  and will serve as a means for the evolution of
  ERA
• The shift of Grids from eScience to industry will
  in future reap the benefits for European
  business, industry and society
• Need for stronger co-ordination of existing
  Community, Member States and international Grid
  research initiatives, e.g. through a Virtual
  Grid Middleware Laboratory

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems

• Indicative budget
• ? Call 2 45 M / total FP6 125 M
• Budget vs. Instruments (tentative)
• 4-5 (mainly) IPs and NoEs Coverage of each
  research focus by 2 IPs
• 5 STREPs 1-2 CAs SSAs

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Call 2 GRID-based Systems for solving complex
problems Useful information

• Contact person(s)
• Wolfgang Boch, Head of Unit F2 - Grids for
  Complex Problem solving (wolfgang.boch_at_cec.eu.int)
  
• For Next generation Grid developments contact
  Roman Tirler (roman.tirler_at_cec.eu.int)
• For Generic enabling application technologies
  contact Max Lemke (max.lemke _at_cec.eu.int)
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/index.htm
• News Events
• Info day June 20th in Brussels Centre
  Borschette, 36 Rue Froissart

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Research Networking test beds
Call 2
25 MEuro

• Work complementary to high performance GRIDs
  GÉANT
• Key Objectives
• Validate through test beds future upgrades in
  Europes infrastructure
• Foster deploy next generation networks
• Research Tasks
• Test and validate new networking technologies
• Develop Roadmaps for infrastructure development
• Interoperability

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds

• Objectives
• To integrate and validate, in the context of
  user-driven large scale testbeds, the
  state-of-the-art technology that is essential for
  preparing the future upgrades in the
  infrastructure deployed across Europe. This
  should help support all research fields and
  identify the opportunities that such technology
  offers together with its limitations. The work is
  essential for fostering the early deployment in
  Europe of Next Generation Information and
  Communications Networks based upon all-optical
  technologies and new Internet protocols and for
  incorporating the most up-to-date middleware.

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds

• Focus
• integrating, testing, validating and
  demonstrating new networking technologies and
  services in real-world settings and production
  environments.
• developing roadmaps and strategic guidance for
  infrastructure development in Europe, promoting
  specialised training and education on related
  advanced topics, promoting centres of excellence
  (e.g. GRIDs technology centres) and technology
  and know-how transfer ...
• fostering interoperability of solutions across
  different scientific and industrial disciplines
  in an effort to achieve broader-scale up-take of
  new state-of-the-art infrastructure technology
  and promoting the creation of standards and a
  continued effort to strengthen contributions to
  open-source objectives.

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds

• 'Research Networking' is a key IST area with 2
  complementary approaches
• broadband interconnection of national research
  and education networks
• establishment of advanced European experimental
  test-beds

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds
International links of GÉANT within FP5
GÉANT a forerunner of ERA and a model for
international cooperation in global challenges
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Call 2 Research Networking test beds GÉANT

• World leading Research Network
• Connecting more than 3100 Universities and RD
  centers
• Over 32 countries across Europe
• Connectivity to NA, Japan,
• Speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds
Transfer volume in the European Backbone
Network before and after the introduction of GÉANT
1250
1 Petabyte
1000
750
Terabyte/month
500
250
0
Dec 2000
June 2001
Dec 2001
June 2002
Dec 2002
TEN-155
GEANT
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Call 2 Research Networking test beds

• Visible facts from FP5 on support for Research
  Infrastructures
• GÉANT / international connectivity - Eumedis,
  ALIS, TEIN, Russia,...
• Large scale experimentation on IPv6
• Optical testbeds
• Grids pilots involving leading Research Centers

• High political visibility - EP, Council, eEurope
  2002
• Doubling the budget in FP6

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Call 2 Research Networking test beds Research
e-Infrastructure
Two key aspects for the future

• deployment of the most performant research
  backbone network in the world (GÉANT) boosting
  the transfer of information

• piloting of new and particularly powerful forms
  of distributed computing Grids boosting the
  processing of information

e-Infrastructure
GÉANT
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Call 2 Research Networking test beds Moving
towards an e-Infrastructure
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Call 2 Research Networking test beds Moving
towards an e-Infrastructure
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Call 2 Research Networking test beds Useful
information

• Contact person(s)
• Mr. Mario CAMPOLARGO Head of Unit F3 Research
  Infrastructure
• (mario.campolargo_at_cec.eu.int)
• Mr. Pascal DRABIK responsible for the 2nd Call
• (pascal.drabik_at_cec.eu.int)
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/home.html
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/rn-fp6.htm
• Next Events
• Mid July (exact day not defined yet) Stay tuned
  at the site!
• Past Events
• Meeting with NRENs - 24th March 2003
• Workshop on Interconnection of heterogeneous
  wireless testbeds - 26th March 2003

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eInclusion
Call 2
30 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• equal access and participation for all
• persons with disabilities and ageing citizens
• Research Tasks
• interfaces, sensors and robotics to be
  integrated in assistive devices
• improved web usability for digitally
  disadvantaged persons
• intelligent housing for persons with special
  needs

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Call 2 eInclusion

• Objectives
• To promote eInclusion as a core horizontal
  building block in the establishment of the
  Information Society to ensure equal access and
  participation for all in Europe.
• To develop intelligent systems that empower
  persons with disabilities and ageing citizens to
  play a full role in society and to increase their
  autonomy.

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Call 2 eInclusion

• Focus
• Research on advanced interfaces, low cost
  sensors and possibly robotics to be integrated in
  assistive devices, and information modeling and
  web semantics to improve web usability for
  digitally disadvantaged persons.
• Development and demonstration of intelligent
  housing for persons with special needs to be
  addressed in an integrated approach.
• Networking of research teams, in the domain of
  assistive technologies to strengthen the research
  effort on the quality of life of users with
  physical, sensory or cognitive impairments as
  well as in the domain of design-for-all for
  mainstream products and services exploring, for
  example, cognitive demands and new multimodal
  platforms.

Mainly IPs STREPs
Mainly NoEs
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Call 2 eInclusion

• IST should be perceived as tool for social
  integration of elderly and disabled persons
• Amsterdam Treaty all European citizens shall
  have the right to participate fully and without
  discrimination in European society
• Some figures
• By the year 2010, about 25 of the European
  population will be aged over 60, rising to 30 by
  2020.
• The proportion of persons with disabilities will
  rise from about 11 today to around 18 by 2020

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Call 2 eInclusion

• Technology Research Initiative, eAccessibility
  for All
• Equal access participation for all
• Empowerment autonomy

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Call 2 eInclusion

• Barrier-free technologies
• focus on mainstream products and systems,
  including public services, which must be designed
  in such a way that they can meet the requirements
  of the widest possible range of users and use
  situations
• Empowering technologies
• focus on a broad range of intelligent assistive
  devices and systems for persons with
  disabilities, which must be developed and
  improved. Leading-edge technologies must be
  identified and harnessed to the tasks of enabling
  users to live independent lives, to achieve
  self-fulfilment and to realise their full
  potential.

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Call 2 eInclusion

• IST should be perceived as tool for social
  integration of elderly and disabled persons
  (Cross Domains Barrier Free and Empowering
  Technology, including intelligent interfaces and
  cognitive issues)
• Reasonable cost is an important factor
• Added value to existing funding (from
  international, national and regional programmes)

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Call 2 eInclusion Useful information

• Contact person(s)
• Mrs. Inmaculada.PLACENCIA-PORRERO
• (inmaculada.placencia-porrero_at_cec.eu.int)
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/so/einclusion/home.html
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka1/special_needs/home.ht
  ml
• Past Events
• 21.05.2003 e-inclusion Infoday, Brussels
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/so/einclusion/events.html
  

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Some figures from Call 1

• Example Networked Business and Goverments
• Requested1.6 B Indicative budget of 75M (21.5
  times more)

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Instruments for the IST priority

• Integrated Projects
• Objective driven
• Networks of Excellence
• Exploratory research
• Article 169
• Targeted research projects
• (address specific issues)
• Co-ordination actions
• Support Actions

NEW
No longer available .. -
Individual Take-up Actions - SME Exploratory
Awards
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Example of implementation in IST
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IPs addressing all needed elements of the value
chain
Ex Multi-sensorial interfaces
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Integrated Projects - possible implementations
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Some practical aspects

• Not that many IPs can be launched by strategic
  priority
• The IP must meet the Call text clearly
• Impact analysis
• Covering the innovation process interactions
• Technology, verification and dissemination
• Do not bet only on IP (check STREPs)
• Size?

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Some practical aspects

• Management more important than before, crisis
  management to be described!
• IPs something entirely new, high competition,
  good not enough, very good the minimal
• Use the Expressions of Interests for checking
  related activities
• Contact the relevant Commission people before
  spending too much effort
• Expert database on Cordis www.cordis.lu

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Thanks for your attention!
Georgios TSELENTIS European Commission, IST
programme New Working Environments (georgios.tsel
entis_at_cec.eu.int)