FP7 ICT Work Programme 200708 First draft

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FP7 ICT Work Programme 2007-08First draft

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WP Main Objectives and Structure

• A limited set of Challenges aiming at
• overcoming technology roadblocks to achieve
  specific characteristics, and/or
• end-to-end systems targeting specific
  socio-economic goals
• A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of
  Objectives that form the basis of Calls for
  Proposals
• An Objective is described in terms of
• Target outcome
• Expected impact

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ICT WP 2007-08 Challenges
Network and service infrastructures
Future and Emerging Technologies
Cognitive systems, robotics and interaction
Technology roadblocks
Components, Systems, engineering
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Ch 1 Network service infrastructures

• Rationale
• Networks 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
• Determining factor in business development in all
  sectors
• Of a growing and changing demand
• For more, and more user control of
  content/services, for interconnecting things ,
  for convergence in networks, services and devices
  
• Current technologies can be, and need to be
  improved significantly
• for scaling up, for more flexibility, for more
  security and dependability
• Europe is in a leading position Industry,
  technology and use
• Networks equipment and services, business
  software, security, GRIDs technology

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Challenge 1 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• Billions of devices connected
• Convergence emerging but
• User handles separate networks, a multiplicity of
  devices, disparate services
• Security and trust are add on characteristics
• Robustness/dependability a key hurdle
• Difficulty to cope with the fragmentation of the
  value chain

• Trillions of devices connected
• Anywhere, anytime, any device
• Unlimited capacity
• Reconfigurability, adaptability,
  Interoperability, Service composition
• Built-in security and trust
• Highly dependable software and systems
• Full support to distributed value chains
• Service oriented architectures
• Computing/data handling a utility

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Challenge 1 Approach in the WP
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Ch 2 Cognitive systems, robotics and Interaction

• Rationale
• Todays ICT systems cannot adapt to their
  context, can not learn from experience and can
  not act based on observation and learning.
• Many ICT applications can not be developed
  further in case there is no new breakthrough in
  machine intelligence
• Overcoming technology roadblocks opens the doors
  to a wide range of opportunities in new
  application fields
• Service robots and health robots, Industrial
  robots, vision/sensing systems, Multimodal and
  multilingual interactions, ..
• Europe has key assets to build on
• A world leadership in industrial robotics,
• Mastering of multiple disciplines (neuroscience,
  ICT, microsystems, ..)
• A very good academic research in this field

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Challenge 2 The targets
Today
5 15 years

• Robots operating in  structured ,
   constrained  environnments
• Industrial robots
•  Programmed  service robots
• Basic, but not full, understanding of
  computational representations of human cognitive
  processes
• First applications in cognitive vision
• Human-machine interactions that are rather static
  or passive
• unable to adapt to human behaviours and unable to
  empower humans in their interactions

• Robots exhibiting advanced behaviour
• Adapting to context learning from observation
• Machines and systems that understand their users
  and/or their environment
• Systems that analyse and understand multimedia
  and multimodal digital information
• operating in dynamic and open-ended environments

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Challenge 2 Approach in the WP

• One objective in the Work Programme addressing
  the basic technologies and their integration into
  systems with a budget of 193 million Euro
• The objective is called twice in Call1 and 3
• Rationale Enable this new constituency and in
  particular industry to build up its research
  activities and projects with two annual calls
  with 1 year difference.

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Ch 3 components, systems, engineering

• Rationale
• Electronic systems underpin the 6 trillion Euro
  ICT markets
• Electronic systems are embedded in all artefacts
  of life
• 20 to 40 of the value of new products comes from
  embedded electronics
• Increasing demand for lower cost, higher
  performance components
• Europe is currently leading in electronics for a
  number of industries
• E.g. car safety, engine control, avionics,
  telecom equipments, medical equipments,
  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 and
  embedded systems.

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Challenge 3 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• 45-nano-meter node,
• In leading edge research
• 300 mm wafers
• Silicon and CMOS dominate
•  Homogeneous  integration
• Photonics applications emerging
• Difficulty with reliable large-scale real-time
  embedded systems
• Unable to analyse aggregate behaviours, predict
  and control systems

• Below the 32 nano-meter node
• 450 mm Wafers
• New materials
• Higher integration,
• More heterogeneous (SoCs, SiPs)
• Wider use of advanced photonics
• Higher productivity in the design of embedded
  systems
• Higher control capacity of large scale real time
  systems

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Challenge 3 Approach in the WP
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Challenge 4 Digital libraries and content

• Rationale
• We are confronted with a growing load of
  information and content,
• It is estimated that in less than 10 years the
  average person will be managing terabytes of
  photos, music, videos and documents every day.
• content production and consumption is moving from
  few-to-many to many-to-many models
• We need to preserve better, develop and diffuse
  our cultural assets and these is an increasing
  demand for knowledge and skills.
• Todays technology is not sufficient Progress is
  needed to make content knowledge more
  accessible, interactive and usable.
• Europe, with its unique cultural heritage and
  creative potential, is well placed to take
  advantage of these technologies.

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Challenge 4 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• An intense effort is still required to access,
  interpret, and learn from content
• Content is not personalised
• Interactivity is limited to smart menus.
• Knowledge is badly exploited
• Tools for the capturing and editing are still in
  their infancy.
• Learning tools focus so far only on the delivery
  of content

• Digital libraries are widely available
• Multilingual cultural and scientific resources
  are produced, managed, transmitted, preserved and
  used reliably, efficiently and at low cost
• Efficient editing and knowledge management
  systems
• solid semantic foundations
• mass-individualisation of learning experiences
  with ICT (mid term)
• adaptive and intuitive learning systems (longer
  term).

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Ch4 Approach in the WP
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Challenge 5 Sustainable and personalised
healthcare,

• Rationale
• Healthcare is identified as one of the most
  important issues for EU citizens
• By 2050, close to 40 of the Unions population
  will be over 65 years
• Increasing citizens expectations for the best
  care available and equality in access
• the need to respond to emerging disease risks
• ICT can help us address the challenges
• By 2010, ICT for Health spending may account for
  up to 5 of the EU total health budget from just
  1 in 2000.
• Information processing is a major component of
  any health organisation.
• ICT is also supporting progress in medical
  research, better management and diffusion of
  medical knowledge, and a shift towards
  evidence-based medicine.
• European businesses many of which are small-
  and medium-sized enterprises have every
  opportunity to become leading global players in
  the new ICT for Health industry.

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Challenge 5 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• Citizens, healthy or under treatment, can not
  monitor their health
• No access to comprehensive and secure electronic
  health records.
• E.g. needs of elderly people are not sufficiently
  covered.
• Health professionals do not yet have fast and
  easy access to patient-specific data
• to support diagnosis or plan clinical
  interventions.
• Health authorities do not make sufficient use of
  information processing systems

• Innovative systems and services for personalised
  health monitoring.
• E.g. wearable/portable ICT systems
• Efficient systems for point-of-care diagnostics.
• Alerts and management support
• Improved management of large scale health-related
  crises
• Tools for patient-specific computational
  modelling simulation of organs or systems.
• (longer term)

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Challenge 5 Approach in the WP
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Challenge 6 Mobility, Environment, Energy

• Rationale
• increasing demand for transport services
• more congestion, high consumption of energy,
  pollutant emissions,
• and above-all accidents causing fatalities and
  injuries
• over 40.000 fatalities on the EU roads every year
  
• with a cost of around 200 billion /year
• an increasing demand for natural resources
• (e.g. 1-2 per year for energy and growing water
  consumption)
• natural and industrial disasters has doubled in
  one decade,
• killing 500.000 people
• ICT can help
• better use the transport infrastructures, improve
  safety and limit waste
• increase efficiency of energy production and use,
  and significantly improve the management of
  environmental risks
• Europes industry in this sector is one of the
  most competitive
• capable of developing and uptaking innovative ICT
  solutions

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Challenge 6 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• Safety of vehicles and their energy efficiency
  have drastically improved.
• But, the zero-accident scenario is still a
  distant goal.
• current vehicle's active safety systems are still
  limited stand alone
• Risk management systems provide isolated
  solutions
• No co-ordinated ICT-triggered alert of rescue and
  security forces.
• Infrastructures are not sufficiently energy
  efficient
• e.g. buildings, production plants, transport and
  communications

• Intelligent Vehicle Systems
• secure vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastr
  ucture communication systems
• optimised traffic management at large scale
• Fully integrated management systems to monitor
  and react to environmental and other risks
• Intelligent monitoring of energy production,
  distribution, trading and use

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Challenge 6 Approach in the WP
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Challenge 7 ICT for Independent Living and
Inclusion

• Rationale
• Between 1998 and 2025 the proportion of the
  population classified as elderly will increase
  from 20 to 28,
• The fastest growing group of the elderly
  population is the very old, that is those aged
  over 80.
• More people with high disability rates, fewer
  informal carers and a smaller productive
  workforce
• Need for a paradigm shift in health and social
  care
• Complexity and lack of accessibility and
  usability of many ICT-based products and services
  is a major barrier for many people
• ICT offers important means to address the
  problems
• This offer also a major economic opportunity for
  European industry.

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Challenge 7 The targets
Today
5 10 years

• Research on technology for independent living is
  in its infancy.
• Progress in the areas of eAccessibility
  assistive technology
• increasing complexity and limited usability of
  many products and services
• lack of interoperability between existing
  inclusive systems
• Lack of interoperability between assistive or
  health-support technologies and mainstream ICT

• ICT solutions that will help substantially
  reduce the 30 of the population currently not
  using ICT
• User friendly systems beyond the PC and current
  technologies
• ICT based solutions extending independence and
  prolonging active participation in society
• Cost-effective, multi-vendor solutions enabling
  seamless and reliable integration of devices and
  services

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Challenge 7 Approach in the WP
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Future and Emerging Technologies

• Objective
• To lay foundations of the ICT innovations of
  tomorrow
• To foster trans-disciplinary research excellence
  in emerging ICT-related research domains
• To help emerging research communities to organise
  and structure their research agenda
• Impact
• Create new long-term competitive options for ICT
• Avoid tunnel vision in FP7, by exploring
  unconventional minority options and
  opportunities off the beaten track
• Pathfinder role prepare for future ICT
  directions in the WP

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FET structure and content

• FET Open
• Open to any foundational ICT-related research
• High-risk / high-potential impact
• To shape emerging research communities and
  agendas
• Coordination and international cooperation
• 64 MEuro, continuous submission, CP (STREP only),
  CSA (CA only)
• FET pro-active
• Address fundamental cross-cutting long-term
  challenges in ICT, such as
• Reconsidering the nature of computing and
  communication
• Addressing limits of miniaturisation and scale-up
  (complexity)
• Embracing change of ICT systems as a feature,
  not a problem
• ICT-Bio convergence
• Real/virtual confluence
• Mastering ICT as a tool for organisational and
  socio/economic transformation
• 120 MEuro for 6 initiatives

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Horiozontal actions

• International cooperation, 12 M
• In addition to International Cooperation within
  the objectives
• Still work in progress
• Socio-economics and support to ICT policies, 6
  M
• Network of Excellence on the economics of ICT
• Research on the impact of ICT on the economy at
  macro level
• Helps structure research in this field, get a
  better insight on the impact of ICT and provide
  policy guidance for the future

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Funding schemes

• Collaborative projects
• Research projects carried out by consortia
• aiming at developing new knowledge, new
  technology, products,
• Two types
• Small or medium-scale focused research actions
  (STREPs)
• Research, demonstration, management activities
• Large-scale integrating projects (IP)
• Research, demonstration, management, innovation,
  training, project management,
• Networks of Excellence (NoE)
• Coordination and support actions (CSA)
• Coordination Actions (CAs) Specific Support
  Actions (SSAs)

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Objective descriptions

• Target outcomes
• Characteristics of the outcome
• Expected impact
• Technology progress, standards, etc..
• Industrial Competitiveness
• Societal challenges
• Funding schemes
• Distribution of budget on the funding schemes

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European Community FP7 Participation
Rules(Commission proposal adopted 23.12.05 and
likely to be applied in ICT/FP7)

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Minimum conditions for participation

• General
• Three independent participants from three
  different Member States (MS) or Associated
  countries (Ac)
• Sole participants are eligible one legal
  entity established in a MS or Ac, composed of
  legal entities that satisfy the minimum
  conditions (usually and in certain cases in SSA,
  CA projects)
• Collaborative projects addressing the
  participation of international cooperation
  partner countries in parity with MS or AC
  minimum is four participants of which 2 in MS or
  Ac and 2 in INCO countries
• JRC may participate and is deemed to be from a
  different MS or Ac (same principles for
  international European interest organisations and
  entities established under Community law)
• Participation of international organisations,
  Public Administrations (ERA-NET schemes) and
  participants from third countries if in addition
  to minima
• Member States (MS) EU 25 Associated
  countries (Ac) EU non member countries
  associated to FP7, ie, Iceland, Israel,
  Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland

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Calls for proposals

• Calls for proposals always, except
• Joint Technology Initiatives for
• Nano-electronics and
• embedded systems,
• (NOT PART OF THIS PROGRAMME BUT TO BE ESTABLISHED
  
• BY SEPARATE DECISIONS)
• European Information and Communication
  Technologies Prize (EICTP scheme promoting
  innovation by public recognition of companies
  that bring research results into markets)

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Submission and Evaluation

• Commission to adopt and publish rules on the
  procedures for proposal submission, evaluation,
  selection and award
• Including two-stage submission and two-step
  evaluation
• Commission to adopt and publish rules to ensure
  consistent verification of the legal status and
  financial capacity of participants
• Irregularity and violation of fundamental ethical
  principles are grounds for exclusion from
  evaluation and selection
• Transparent, fair and impartial evaluation
  procedures with help of independent experts

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Evaluation criteria
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Evaluation criteria
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Evaluation criteria
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Implementation and grant agreements

• Participants implement the work jointly and
  severally towards the Community and carry out
  work of a defaulting partner unless the
  Commission relieves them of that obligation
  (technical responsibility)
• Financial collective responsibility does not
  apply in FP7
• Commission to assess risk of default and may
  establish a mechanism to cover financial loss
• If implementation of the project is impossible or
  participants fail to implement it, the Commission
  shall ensure its termination
• Consortium agreements obligatory unless exempted
  by call for proposals
• Changes in consortium membership possible

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Implementation and grant agreements

• Model grant agreement to be drawn up
• to establish rights and obligations of
  participants (including submission of reports,
  termination etc.)
• identify whether and what part of the EC
  financial contribution is based on reimbursement
  of eligible costs, lump sums or flat rates
• Identify which changes in composition of the
  consortium require prior publication of a
  competitive call (IP projects usually), and
• shall reflect the principles laid down in the
  European Charter for Researchers and the Code of
  Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers
  (synergies with education, engagement with the
  broad public, increase of the participation of
  women, and socio-economic aspects of research)
• specific provisions for certain types of actions
  (IPR particularly)
• grant agreement comes into force upon signature
  by the coordinator and the Commission and applies
  to each participant that has acceded to it

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Community financial contribution

• Eligibility for Funding
• Legal entities from Member States and Associated
  countries or created under Community law (and
  JRC)
• International European interest organisations
• Legal entities established in international
  cooperation partner (INCO) countries
• and
• International organisations, third countries
  other than INCO, if provided for in specific
  programme or work programme or essential for
  carrying out action or provision for funding is
  provided for in a bilateral agreement between
  Community and the third country
• Basis for Funding
• Reimbursement of eligible costs
• Flat rates, including scale of unit costs
• Lump sum amounts

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Reimbursement of eligible costs

• Co-financing, no profit
• May be combined with the pre-set lump sums and/or
  flat rates for certain items of a project
• Cost reporting models eliminated
• Participants charge direct and indirect costs
  (option of flat rate for those who do not or can
  not charge real indirect costs)
• Costs must be actual incurred during the
  project determined according to the usual
  accounting and management principles/practices
  and used only to achieve project objectives, and
  consistent with principles of economy, efficiency
  and effectiveness recorded in accounts and paid
  (or the accounts of third parties) exclusive of
  non-eligible costs
• Average personnel costs may be used if consistent
  with above and do not differ significantly from
  actual
• Receipts taken into account at the end of the
  project
• Audit certificates continued but reduced

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Maximum funding rates

• Research and technological activities 50 of
  eligible costs except for
• Public bodies 75
• Secondary and higher education establishments
  75
• Research organisations (non-profit) 75
• SMEs 75
• Demonstration activities 50 of eligible costs
• Other activities (management, etc) 100 of
  eligible costs
• Coordination and support actions 100
• Training and career development of researchers
  actions 100

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Lump sum and flat rate financing

• Lump sum and/or flat rate financing (scale of
  unit costs) could be used for the whole action,
  or
• Flat-rates/lump sums for certain costs can be
  combined with reimbursement of eligible costs
• A specific lump sum is identified for Networks of
  Excellence (NoEs) (unless otherwise provided for
  in work programme),
• calculated according to the number of researchers
  to be integrated and the duration of the action
• Unit value 23,500 / year / researcher
• payment effected in periodic releases, -based on
  attainment of progress
• Lump sums and flat rates do not require
  justification of eligible costs

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Intellectual Property Provisions

• Pre-existing know-how (in FP6) becomes background
  (in FP7) which is
• held by participants prior to their accession to
  the EC grant agreement (no side-ground) and
• needed for carrying out the project or for using
  its results
• No need to exclude it from access
• Knowledge (in FP6) becomes foreground (in FP7)

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Intellectual Property Provisions

• Ownership each participant owns the foreground
  it generates
• Joint ownership
• (in absence of specific agreement default joint
  ownership regime applies)
• any owner can grant non-exclusive licenses to
  third parties, subject to prior notification and
  fair and reasonable compensation to the other
  owner(s) with no right to sub-licence.
• Transfer of ownership of foreground
• Prior notification only to the other participants
  who may waive their rights to be notified
  regarding specific third parties
• Requirement to notify Commission may be in grant
  agreement, Commission may object to transfers or
  exclusive licenses to third countries if contrary
  to ethical or competitiveness principles

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Intellectual Property Provisions

• Protection, use, dissemination, publication
• Foreground capable of industrial or commercial
  application shall be protected
• Owner of foreground may transfer to another
  participant if it does not wish to protect or to
  the Commission
• Foreground to be used and disseminated
• Notice of dissemination (including publication)
  to be given to other participants (not
  Commission)
• Publications and patent applications must
  indicate the Community financial assistance

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Intellectual Property Provisions

• Access rights
• Participants define the background they need and
  may exclude but not necessarily prior to
  signature of EC grant agreement
• Requests for access rights within one year after
  the end of the project or other period to be
  agreed by participants
• Possible to grant exclusive licenses if other
  participants waive their rights
• Commission no longer informed of granting of
  access rights to third parties, unless foreseen
  in the grant agreement
• Special provisions for certain types of actions
  e.g. frontier research, research for the benefit
  of specific groups, security research

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Sites on europa

• FP7 http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7
• Rules http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/participation_t
  xt.htm

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Next steps

• Sept 20, discussion at ISTC
• Commission revises the version 1 based on
  Comments received
• Text needs further editing refinement in any case
• New version circulated by 4 October for
  discussion on 18/10
• There are parts that will be defined with
  precision only later awaiting final decision on
  SPs and RFPs.
• e.g. descition of the instruments and evaluation
  criteria.