FP7 Renewed Research Challenges Strengthening European's Capacities for new Ideas, Mobility and Scientific Cooperation Carlos Morais Pires DG INFSO F Research eInfrastructures and Testbeds

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FP7Renewed Research ChallengesStrengthening
European's Capacitiesfornew Ideas, Mobility and
Scientific CooperationCarlos Morais
PiresDG INFSO FResearch eInfrastructures and
Testbeds
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The European Commissionorganizational chart
Commission President
Chefs de Cabinet
Strategic Planning and Programming Unit
Body of Commissioners/ College
Secretariat - General
Directorate - Generals
INFSO
Etc..
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DG INFSOOrganizational Chart

• Mission DG INFSO
• development and use of ICTs for the benefit of
  all
• citizens
• innovation and competitiveness in Europe through
• excellence in ICT RD
• a regulatory environment that fosters
  competition
• widespread availability and accessibility of
  ICT-
• based services
• promote international cooperation in ICT RD

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• Overall Objectives DG INFSO
• Open competitive internal market
• Reinforcement of network security
• Promotion of European Internet .eu domain
• Promotion of the European Digital Presence
• Interoperability of telecommunications networks

To make Europe a dynamic economy,
characterized cy sustainable growth, more and
better jobs and greater social cohesion
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DG INFSO

• In close cooperation with
• DG Competition
• International regulatory aspects
• Electronic communications
• regulatory framework
• Competition related aspects
• of Internet

Innovation, creativity, Inclusion European
Information Society
Regulation
Policies
Research
Preparation of EUs 7th Framework Programme for
RD
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FP7 - Specific Programmes
Cooperation Collaborative research (predefined
themes, refined FP6 instruments)
Ideas Frontier Research (competition,
individual grants)
People Human Potential (mobility)
Capacities Research Capacity (infrastructure,
SMEs, science and society)

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FP7 Specific Programmes
Cooperation
Ideas
People
Capacities
JRC
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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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FP7 implementation timetable
Call 4
Call 5
Call 1
Call 2
Call 3
Call 6
FP6
2003
2004
2005
2006
FP7
2007 - 2013
Communication on FP7 orientations
Adoption
FP7, SPs, RfPproposals
FP7 Work Programmes Calls
New Financial Perspectives
2007 - 2013
Communication on new financial perspectives
Agreement
Legislative proposals
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EU vision - creating an e-Infrastructure
Global knowledge infrastructure
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FP7 addressing new layers and infrastructures
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Synergy between EU and National initiatives

• e-IRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group
• EU initiatives federate and add value to
  National initiatives

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Specific Info on Capacities WP

• Call 1 eInfrastructures
• Digital Repositories
• Enlarging user communities for GRIDS
• Design phase for Supercomputers

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ICT Key for growth and jobs creation

• ICT a key enabler for productivity growth
  competitiveness
• Half of productivity gains in our economies are
  due to ICT
• ICT impacts business efficiency across the
  economy
• ICT underpins innovations in all major products
  and services
• ICT an important sector in its own right
• From 4 of EU GDP in early 90s to close to 8
  today
• ICT underpins progress in all science
  technology fields
• Computation and simulation, data handling,
  sensing, control, collaboration, etc..
• e.g. GÉANT, the world-leading research network,

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ICT helps address key societal challenges

• ICT providing tools for addressing key societal
  challenges
• ageing population, inclusion, healthcare
• Education, learning and preserving Cultural
  diversity
• Safety, environment and risk management
• ICT a facilitator for more efficient public
  services
• Helps modernise administrations and public
  services
• allows more participation in democracy and public
  life

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ICT RD Europe Lags

• ICT represents more than a third of total RD
  budget in all major OECD economies, In Europe it
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Spending on ICT RD in 2000 (Billion Euro)
EU 31
J 51
US 103
Source IDATE, 2002
European Union
USA
Japan

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

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FP7 - Putting the knowledge triangle at work

• European competitive knowledge economy triangle
  of knowledge
• produce knowledge through research
• diffuse it through education
• apply it through innovation

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Challenges in ICT workprogramme
Challenge 1 Pervasive and Trusted Network and
Service Infrastructures Challenge 2 Cognitive
Systems, Interaction, Robotics Challenge 3
Components, systems, engineering Challenge 4
Digital Libraries and Content Challenge 5
Towards sustainable and personalised
healthcare Challenge 6 ICT for Mobility,
Environmental Sustainability and Energy
Efficiency Challenge 7 ICT for Independent
Living and Inclusion Future and Emerging
Technologies Horizontal support actions
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New Paradigms andExperimental Facilities for the
Future Internet

• The Internet became a backbone of Modern
  Societies
• Future Internet has to incorporate new features
  and keep the nature of interoperability, openness
  and transparency. It must be able to scale for
  big and for very small (prepare for the Internet
  of things).

by 2010, about 80 of the planet will be on the
Internet ( ISOC)

• However, there are problems
• Complexity to manage the infrastructure
  (heterogeneity, robustness, mobility) and the
  infostructure (code, content, addresses,
  identities) the so called architectural
  complexity
• Resilience and security spam, viruses, denial of
  service attacks
• Scale adding new devices, the emerging Internet
  of Things (cars, mobile phones, sensor networks)

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New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities for
the Future Internet

• In FP7
• there will be the opportunity to strongly involve
  European researchers to address disruptive
  research in networking, combining aspects of
  theoretical exploration, research and
  experimentation, large scale measurements and
  validation.
• research will address the increasing complexity
  and scale, the need for robustness and
  resilience, management of mobility etc.
  Multidisciplinary techno-socio-economic will play
  a key role when tackling the new challenges.

• Information on the Call
• When Call 2 (May/June 2007)
• Budget 39 Meuro
• Instrument Collaborative Projects, Support
  Actions

• New Paradigms, Experimentation and Validation
• the objective is to support the research with
  experimentation, measurement and validation at
  unprecedented scales and making use of the
  richness of basic heterogeneous seed platforms.

Note This objective is complementary and
coordinated with Technologies and systems
architectures for the Future Internet, part of
called in The network of the Future Call 1
(Jan 2007, Budget 24 Meuro)
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Further information
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Thank you