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FET
Future Emerging Technologies in the 6th
Framework Programme
Kostas Glinos DG-INFSO F1
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FET identity

• ISTs pathfinder activity and a nursery of new
  ideas
• Core values
• Exploring whats next scenaria
• Community building and mobilisation
• Interdisciplinarity - not for its own sake!
• Selective but open unconstrained by mainstream
  priorities
• Flexible, light procedures suited to basic
  research

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FET The OPEN scheme

• Widest possible spectrum, bottom-up
• Primarily Research but also Support activities
• Any innovative idea of quality
• high risk / high potential payoff research
• longer term foundational research
• embryonic research proof-of-concept

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FET The OPEN scheme

• Research Implemented through STREPs 2-step
  process
• A short proposal submitted first, at any time
• Full proposals only if short proposal was
  successful
• Three evaluation cut-off dates per year (13 May
  2003...)
• Evaluation remote and in-Brussels
• Real-time process
• Support build research communities through
  CAs and SSAs 1 step process

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FET Proactive initiatives

• Take an early lead in key future or emerging
  technologies
• Motivated by long-term visions and goals
• objective-driven
• Implementation one or more IPs ( NoE?)

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FET Proactive initiatives in FP6
Advisory Board
IP2
Stakeholders Scientificguidance
NoE
IP1
Commission

• Budget allows for new partners tasks
• Dynamic re-adjustment of objectives workplan
• Review on a continual basis

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Roadmap for pro-actives 2003-2004

• 1st Call Dec 2002
• Beyond robotics
• Complex systems research
• The disappearing computer 2
• 3rd Call (early 2003 subjects tentative!)
• Quantum information processing
• Molecular computing
• Global computing
• Life-like perception and cognition systems

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Beyond robotics

• Robot ecologies
• autonomous heterogeneous microrobot teams
• collective behaviour intelligence
• Robotic companions
• cognitive mobile aids to humans
• Hybrid bionic systems
• augmenting human capabilities perception of the
  environment, motion etc, nervous system...
• Build on NI and LPS work
• No classical robotics

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Complex systems research

• Use concepts and methods from complex system
  analysis to develop novel IT systems
• scalable, robust, self-repairing and
  self-regulating
• Areas
• New design principles for dynamically evolving
  large-scale information systems (IP)
• Computational elements as metaphors of biological
  complex systems (IP)
• Ground complex systems research on a unified set
  of concepts, methods and tools (NoE)
• Link information sciences to complex system
  research
• Relations to other proactive initiatives

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Disappearing computer 2

• Radically new architectures for ambient systems
• Universal and open
• Supporting an unbounded set of building blocks
• infinite configurations - unforeseeable
  functionalities
• Representative scenaria of use

architecture
scenario
ambient system
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Timing

• Call for proposals 17 December 2002
• Information day in Brussels 13-14 January 2003
• Open Scheme
• Opening date 10 February 2003
• Cut-off dates 13 May, 16 September
• Proactive initiatives
• Pre-proposal deadline 28 February 2003
• Proposal deadline 24 April 2003

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