IST 6th call for proposals

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• IST 6th call for proposals
• Vilmos Bognár
• EU IST-Pro
• Vilmos.bognar_at_ist.hu
• 36.20.937.07.91
• www.ist.hu

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• IST 6th call for proposals
• Closing date 25 April 2006, 17.00
• Budget 140 Meuro
• Instuments IP, STREP, CA, SSA, no NoE
• Only on-line submission - EPSS
• support_at_epss-fp6.org phone[phone]

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• 2.6.1 Advanced robotics STP,CA, SSA 37M
• 2.6.2 Ambient Assisted Living IP 20M
  STP, CA, SSA 20M
• 2.6.3 Search engines for audio-visual content
  IP - 12 M STP, CA 18M
• 2.6.4 Accompanying actions supporting
  participation CA, SSA 3M
• 2.6.5/1 Targeted research actions
• Int. Coop. on Digital TV Latin America
  STP, CA, SSA 5M
• Int. Coop. on Digital TV China STP,
  CA, SSA 5M
• Int. Coop. on Grid Technologies China
  STP, CA, SSA 5M
• Int. Coop. for eGovernment W. Balkans STP,
  CA, SSA 5M
• Early warning systems Tsunami STP, CA, SSA
  5M
• 2.6.5/2 Coordination actions or Specific support
  actions Strategic cooperation CA, SSA 5M

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• 2.6.1. Advanced Robotics
• Objectives
• Moving from specific industrial technology to a
  broad enabler of a wide range of products and
  services for the costumer, home and
  entertainements market
• Development of more intelligent, flexible,
  cost-effective, modular, safe, interoperable,
  robust user-driven robot systems
• Massive introduction of robots in everyday human
  environments and their close co-operation with
  people
• Extend the coupling of the world of information
  and communication with the world of physical
  interaction

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• Advanced robotics Focus
• STREPs flexible robot systems
• Safe, robust and dependable robot systems
  operating in human environments and co-operating
  with people
• Networked and co-operating robots
• Advanced integrated modular robotics
• Starting poionts state of the art in multi-modal
  knowledge acquisition, in reasoning and
  decision-making, evolution and learning,
  miniaturisation

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• Advanced robotics Focus
• SSAs prepare the emergence of a
  multidisciplinarity research community in
  Europe
• Develop longer term visions and roadmaps
• Address organisational, legal, ethical, and
  socio-economic challenges
• Standardisation activities for modular robotics
• Benchmarking
• International co-operation

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• Advanced robotics information - Infoday in
  Brussels
• Contacts
• Pekka Karp DG INFSO F1, Franco Mastroddi DG INFSO
  E5
• Websites Advanced robotics on Cordis
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/so/advanced-robo
  tics/home.html
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/fet/home.html
• Cognition
• http//cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/cognition/index.
  html
• European Robotics Platform EUROP
• http//www.roboticsplatform.com/
• European Robotics Network EURON
• http//www.euron.org/

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• 2.6.2. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) for the
  Ageing Society
• Assisted Independent Active
• Support to daily activities
• Increase independence and autonomy at home
• (Assistive technology, smart homes, warning
  systems, shopping facilities)
• - Participation in society and mobility
• (communication, access to education, leisure
  etc.)
• Integrated Care Interoperability
• Heakthcare,
• Social care,
• Informal care

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• AAL Proposal requirements
• Respond to end-user needs
• Significant end-user interactioninvolvement in
  RD process
• Multidisciplinary project teams
• Involvement of relevant public authorities
• Verificatuion of tests and results
• Lead to cost-effective, user-friendly solutions
• Stimulate business innovation an involve major
  industrial partners, SMEs
• Clear exploitation of outcomes

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• AAL IPs and STREPs
• Focus 1 Integration of advanced ICTs into working
  prototypes for AAL
• (context-awaresmart products, systems and
  services)
• Focus 2 Development if AAL systems reference
  architectures allowing for seamless integration
  of devices, subsystems and services
• (system interoperability and management,
  contribution to standards, service engineering,
  privacy protection)
• SSAs and CAs
• Legal, regulatory, ethical, phsychological,
  socio-economic, organisational, financial
• CAs
• Bridging different constituencies, support
  clustering, co-operation between projects, inco

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• 2.6.3. Search engine for audio-visual content
• Main features federating approach (of previous
  TRD, of ongoing activities)
• Technologies for search
• Tools and methods
• System approach and validation in realistic
  userscenarios and variesty of environments
• Relevance validations
• Large-scale testbed targets

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• 2.6.3. Search engine for audio-visual content

Objective To provide advanced solutions for
organising, searching and accessing large-scale,
distributed digital audio-visual content and
objects. Support will be given to projects that
significantly advance research capabilities
and/or consolidate existing research work and
identify future orientations in the field.
Proposed actions should have a federating
effect on on-going work within relevant national
initiatives for on-line access to digital
content.
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• 2.6.3. Search engine for audio-visual content
• Focus
• Technologies to support the process of
  representing and interpreting, navigating and
  retrieving audio-visual content and other types
  of digital objects. Particular aspects to be
  considered include heterogeneous data fusion,
  optimised system integration and where applicable
  P2P technologies.
• Methods and tools aimed at higher levels of
  information harvesting, including automated
  knowledge discovery and extraction, annotation
  and summarisation, indexing and retrieval of all
  types of digital content (text, image, video,
  audio, 3D graphical objects etc.), including
  protected content.
• Systems for adaptive search by content and/or
  context to be tested in realistic everyday life
  settings, based on relevance feedback including
  socially-derived relevance. This should encompass
  the integration and testing of search from a
  variety of sources based on mixed-media queries
  and the delivery of different media types on a
  variety of devices (including mobile terminals).

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• 2.6.3. Search engine for audio-visual content
• System aspests
• Emphasis should be placed on future user and
  service search requirements and on ubiquitous
  access, be it from a fixed or mobile networks,
  hiding complexity, as well as handling context
  and geographical awareness in multiple
  environments (e.g. local, corporate, open
  Internet).
• Work should be placed in a systems context with a
  clear industrial exploitation drive. Solutions
  should be validated with targeted applications in
  critical sectors, using large scale heterogeneous
  and networked audio-visual information
  repositories.

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SO 2.6.4 Participation in the IST programme

• Stimulate, encourage and facilitate the
  participation in current and future Community ICT
  research.
• Bridge between the 6 and 7 FWP
• Special focus on newcomers and SMEs, NMS,
  ACC.
• Targeted also on INCO countries.

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• SO 2.6.5 INCO
• Each proposal expected to contribute to global
  strategy for future initiatives
• Focus on well-identified region
• Include partners from region addressed
• Cover all technologies relevant to co-operation
• Yield results within 12-18 months
• Be based on local needs and/or opportunities best
  addressed jointly

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• SO 2.6.5 INCO
• Emphasis on emerging, developing, neighbourhood
  countries
• identifying partner countries, common needs
  and opportunities for deeper strategic
  co-operation through dialogue with broad
  communities
• Awareness raising measures
• Emphasis on emerging, developing, neighbourhood
  countries
• identifying partner countries, common needs
  and opportunities for deeper strategic
  co-operation through dialogue with broad
  communities

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• SO 2.6.5 Inco
• International co-operation on Digital TV
  broadcasting and intaractive applications Target
  region Latin-Amerika
• Open API and middleware isssues
• Interactive applications with strong focus on
  eLearning, eHealth eGovernment

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• SO 2.6.5 Inco
• International Co-operation on digital
  broadcasting mobile convergence
• Target country China
• open API and middleware issues
• scalable video coding and lighweight
  representation and
• content aggregation technologies

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Inco eGovernment and eParticipation Target
countries Western Balkans
Objective To address key issues across the
region, such as - improved public services,-
institutional reinforcement,- decision making-
democratic processes Public services of high
impact may include- eCustoms- ePublic
Procurement- eDemocracy - eParticipation Coopera
tion within the W. Balkan region as well as with
the EU is supported
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• Inco GRID technologies Target country China
• Objectives
• to develop strategic partnerships building on
  common priority areas
• to explore new collaboration opportunities for
  the take-up of Grid-enabled applications by
  end-users
• promoting common developments of standards and
  building joint virtual laboratories involving
  research and industry

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• Inco Early warning systems for geo-physical
  hazards
• Target countries Mediterranean partner
  countries, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri-Lanka,
  Japan, USA, Canada, New-Zealand.
• The aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate
  advanced systems and services to manage
  geo-physical risks, with a focus on developing an
  early warning and alert capacity for improved
  disaster prevention and preparedness in coastal
  zones. The objective is to establish operational
  prototypes for tsunami detection, early warning
  and alert relevant to the main tsunami-prone
  regions in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and
  Indian Ocean.

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• Inco Early warning systems for geo-physical
  hazards
• Target countries Mediterranean partner
  countries, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri-Lanka,
  Japan, USA, Canada, New-Zealand.
• The aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate
  advanced systems and services to manage
  geo-physical risks, with a focus on developing an
  early warning and alert capacity for improved
  disaster prevention and preparedness in coastal
  zones. The objective is to establish operational
  prototypes for tsunami detection, early warning
  and alert relevant to the main tsunami-prone
  regions in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and
  Indian Ocean.
• Additional support measures include
• technology transfer between EU and tsunami-prone
  countries and regions bordering the Indian Ocean,
  for sharing best practice, promoting standards
  and adapting these to local needs and conditions
• Collaboration with specialised institutes in
  countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea with
  the aim of promoting a harmonised approach to
  tsunami early warning and alert for the
  Mediterranean basin.

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• Inco Early warning systems for geo-physical
  hazards
• A large STREP dealing with the enhancement of
  early warning and alert capacities, applied to
  tsunamis and other coastal hazards, which can
  build upon existing and future advanced
  infrastructures implemented under the
  coordination of UNESCO-IOC. Relevance and
  transferability of the technology to multiple
  tsunami-prone areas (Indian Ocean, Mediterranean
  and NE Atlantic) should be explored.
• IST focus should be on software and service
  development and system validation, in particular
  to improve speed and quality of data transmission
  and data integration across the entire chain
  (from monitoring to citizen alert), including
  sensor networking.

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• Inco Early warning systems for geo-physical
  hazards
• A Specific Support Action or Coordination Action,
  willing to cluster with the STREP and other
  related activities, that will enable INCO
  Countries (in particular those bordering the
  Indian Ocean and Mediterranean) to collaborate,
  with respect to e.g. TEWS user requirements,
  validation, training and capacity building, to
  ensure that expected developments meet the local
  needs, while taking into account the
  international coordination guidelines of
  UNESCO-IOC towards the implementation of a global
  tsunami early warning system.

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• Web site
• http//fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseactionUserSit
  e.FP6DetailsCallPagecall_id271
• Info Day
• 31st January 2006, hosted by UNESCO-IOC, Paris
• Contact
• Dr. Karen Fabbri (karen.fabbri_at_cec.eu.int)
• DG Information Society and Media, European
  Commission

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• Commission contact person for each objective open
  in call
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• Partner search facilities
• htp//www.ideal-ist.net
• http//www.partners-service.cordis.lu/
• A network of National Contact Points
  http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ncps.htm

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• ETP JTI
• http//www.cordis.lu/fp7/cooparation.htm
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society
• http//www.aal169.org/
• http//europa.eu.int/i2010
• http//www.nem-initiative.org/
• http//www.roboticsplatform.com/
• http//www.isi-initiative.eu.org
• http//www.ist.hu/6kp/etp/

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