Title: FP7 ICT Work Programme 200708 First draft
1FP7 ICT Work Programme 2007-08First draft
2WP 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
3ICT WP 2007-08 Challenges
Network and service infrastructures
Future and Emerging Technologies
Cognitive systems, robotics and interaction
Technology roadblocks
Components, Systems, engineering
4Ch 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
5Challenge 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
6Challenge 1 Approach in the WP
7Ch 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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8Challenge 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
9Challenge 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.
10Ch 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.
11Challenge 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
12Challenge 3 Approach in the WP
13Challenge 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.
14Challenge 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).
15Ch4 Approach in the WP
16Challenge 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.
17Challenge 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)
18Challenge 5 Approach in the WP
19Challenge 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
20Challenge 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
21Challenge 6 Approach in the WP
22Challenge 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.
23Challenge 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
24Challenge 7 Approach in the WP
25Future 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
26FET 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
27Horiozontal 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
28Funding 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)
29Objective 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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31 32European Community FP7 Participation
Rules(Commission proposal adopted 23.12.05 and
likely to be applied in ICT/FP7)
33Minimum 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
34Calls 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)
35Submission 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
36Evaluation criteria
37Evaluation criteria
38Evaluation criteria
39Implementation 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
40Implementation 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
41Community 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
42Reimbursement 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
43Maximum 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
44Lump 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
45Intellectual 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)
46Intellectual 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
47Intellectual 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
48Intellectual 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
49Sites on europa
- FP7 http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7
- Rules http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/participation_t
xt.htm
50Next 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.