Information Society Technologies in the 6th Framework Programme IST Work Programme 2005-2006 Call 4 Erastos Filos

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Information Society Technologiesin the 6th
Framework Programme IST Work Programme
2005-2006Call 4Erastos Filos
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IST in FP6
anywhere, anytime, anywhere, any service, for
all core technologies pull-through
applications
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Outline of presentation

• IST in FP6
• structure and budget
• objectives, vision and content
• Results of IST Calls in 2003-04
• projects and participation
• IST Work Programme 2005-2006
• objectives
• responding to lessons learned
• changes in context and technology trends
• roadmap of calls and budgets

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IST in FP6 - objectives strategy

• Main objectives
• Establishing Europes leadership in the
  technologies at the heart of the knowledge
  economy and society
• Strengthening Europes competitiveness
  technology base
• Building the information and knowledge society
  for ALL
• Strategy
• Concentration and focus, building critical mass
• Visionary, forward looking (longer term / high
  risk)
• Combine flexibility with greater speed in
  implementation
• Scope of activities Core technologies
  pull-through applications

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The IST vision

• Bringing the users, people, to the foreground
  to the centre of our attention
• building trustful technologies for the background
  (almost invisible)
• Making technology adapt to people and business
  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(e.g
  furniture, clothes, vehicles, smart materials, )

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IST Calls 2003-04 Overview

• 1.9 bn out of 3.8 bn spent in calls in 2003-04
• More than 400 projects supported
• Out of 2500 proposals received
• More than 6500 participations
• Oversubscription

Funding per InstrumentIST Calls 1 2
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IST Calls 2003-04

• IST Call 1
• Closed April 2003 funding 1070m
• 236 projects negotiated and launched
• IST Call 2
• Closed October 2003 funding 525m
• 148 projects under negotiation or launched
• 1st Joint Call with Nano-, Materials- and
  Production-Technologies (NMP)
• focus on production technologies
• Closed April 2003 funding 60m
• FET (Future and Emerging technologies) Open
• Continuous call funding 60m

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IST Calls 2003-04

• IST Call 3
• Closed 22 Sep 2004 funding 28m
• 2nd Joint Call with NMP
• Closed 14 October 2004 funding 180m
• FET (Future and Emerging technologies)
  Proactive Initiatives
• Closed 22 Sep 2004 funding 80m

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IST Calls 2003-04 Participation
Academia
Industry
Non-profit org.
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IST Calls 2003-04 Concentration

• Concentration of effort and building critical
  mass
• Total number of projects selected 3 times less
  than FP5 for an equivalent budget
• Average budget of Integrated Projects 5 times
  larger than FP5 projects
• Setting up managing larger projects a
  challenge

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IST Calls 2003-04 Integration

• More intensive collaboration between various
  actors
• Integrated Projects 2-3 times as many partners
  per project
• From industry, academia and public research labs
• Concern over SME participation
• Integration of effort in an enlarged Europe
  important
• International co-operation

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IST WP 2005-06 Main principles objectives

• Completing the investment in the FP6 objectives
• Adapting content of WP2003-04 in order to take
  account of
• evolving context and technology progress
• lessons learnt from the response to the first
  calls
• Preparing the start of FP7
• Developing new fields, etc.

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IST WP 2005-06 Consultations and Collection of
Input

• Wide consultation
• ISTC - IST Committee
• ISTAG - IST Advisory Group
• Programme Consultation Meetings
• Web-based consultations
• - 5 year evaluation of IST
• - Review of new FP6 instruments
• Portfolio analysis
• IPPA - Integrated Programme Portfolio Analysis
• Responses to previous Calls
• Experience from past and on-going projects

Changes in context and technology trends
Lessons learned
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Lessons learnt from previous calls

• Oversubscription in some fields
• Need for more focus and more precision
• SMEs participation
• Improving but can be strengthened
• Integration of the ICT research effort in an
  enlarged Europe
• Participation of Member States that joined the EU
  recently and of Associated Candidate Countries
  below expectations
• International co-operation
• Domain-specific approaches are needed

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IST WP2005-06 Focussing (1)

• Sharper descriptions of each SO
• Precisions on the use of the instruments within
  each SO
• Budget distribution between instruments adapted
  to each SO

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WP 2005-06 Focussing (2)

• Applications and services for the mobile user
  and worker
• Too many topics addressed
• Focus on Collaborative working environments
• Merging and refocusing of Semantic based
  knowledge and Cross media content

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Future Emerging Technologies

• Complementary to
• other IST strategic objectives
• other FP6 Anticipating ST needs / frontier
  research (new fields / multidisciplinary work)
• More exploratory and visionary research
• Helping new IST-related ST fields and
  communities to emerge
• Open scheme openness to unforeseeable ideas
• Proactive initiatives critical mass where focus
  is needed

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WP 2005-06 Focussing (3)

• The strategic objective on Products and service
  engineering is not covered in WP 2005-06
• The projects already launched in the first calls
  ensure a sufficient coverage of the field
• Splitting the SOs of eBusiness and
  eGovernment and of eLearning and eCulture
• Focus on missions to be achieved in each of the
  fields
• Differing goals
• Different constituencies

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WP2005-06 SMEs

• Distribution of SMEs participation in Calls 1 and
  2
• Call1 16 Call2 17
• NoEs 7 IPs 15 STREPs 24
• Instruments
• Many NoEs are already launched in most fields
  funding for NoEs to decrease significantly in WP
  2005-06
• Adaptation of instruments to SOs should help
• Keep an overall balance of new and traditional
  instruments
• Specific measures when needed
• Nanoelectronics Technologies and devices for
  micro/nano-scale integration ICT for networked
  businesses

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Main technology trends

• Increasing pervasiveness of ICT
• Innovation from ICT use in different fields
• Increasing convergence
• Within ICT
• Communications/computing/media, fixed/wireless,
  etc.
• Between ICT and other fields
• Info-bio, ICT-cogno, ICT-nano-materials
• Higher levels of complexity
• Combination of skills and know how
• Building increasingly complex systems

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ICT use a driver for innovation

• Bringing closer services and technology
  developments
• Mobile service development platforms shifted
  from Applications and services for the mobile
  user to Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
  
• Micro-/nano-based subsystems Focus on new
  application fields that drive innovation
• Trial of Experience and Application Research
• Early user involvement
• The use is integrated into the research
  activity
• eInclusion, collaborative working environments

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Addressing the increasing complexity

• Support development of increasingly complex
  systems
• Integration is an issue
• Technology, Design tools, applications and
  generic systems research
• Examples
• SoCs and SiPs in Nanoelectronics
• Network centric Operating systems (in Advanced
  Grid technologies, systems and services)
• Embedded systems design, cooperating objects,
  adhoc networks, etc..
• Managing complexity in Software and services
• Complex systems in FET

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Convergence trends  ICT-Cogno 

• Concentrate the research effort of Cognitive
  systems which was spread on several SOs into one
  SO in WP2005-06.
• This requires a refocus of the SOs on Multimodal
  interfaces, Semantic-based knowledge and content
  systems and Cognitive systems and some
  rebalancing of the budgets between these SOs.
• FET schemes

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Budget Distribution

• Total budget for WP2005-06 1,8 B
• Starting point WP2003-04 distribution changed
  according to modification of substance
• Pre-allocation of 90 of budget
• Indicative budget distribution between
  Instruments per SO

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Conclusions Opportunities Challenges

• WP 2005-06 provides continuity
• Changes mainly to the substance of each SO
• To take account of lessons learned
• To adapt to market and technology changes
• 2nd phase of FP6 provides a key opportunity to
  shape and improve the impact of IST research in
  Europe
• A new generation of technologies applications
  is emerging
• Europe is well positioned to shape the future
  compete
• The pace of development is increasingly fast
• The aim is people first in an all-inclusive
  knowledge society

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For Further Information
General FP6 http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp
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