Pedro de Sampaio Nunes

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Pedro de Sampaio Nunes Directorate General
Information Society Director Information Society
Strategy and eEurope
Monday, 21st July 2003 Lima, Peru
HIGH-LEVEL EUROPEAN UNION LATIN AMERICA
AND CARIBBEAN INFORMATION SOCIETY FORUM
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Research activities and the European Commission

• Supported through successive four year periods
  called Framework Programmes (FP)
• Major strategic reorientations and financial
  scope decided at the beginning of each FP
• FP6 covers 2002 to 2006 (1st call closing
  24/04/2003)

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FP6 Budget breakdown

• Focussing and Integrating
• Genomics 2255 M
• Information Society Technologies 3625 M
• Nanotechnologies, int.. 1300 M
• Aeronautics and space 1075 M
• Food quality and safety 685 M
• Sustainable development 2120 M
• Citizens and governance .. 225 M
• Anticipation of ST needs
• Anticipating needs 555 M
• SMEs 430 M
• Specific INCO 315 M
• INCO target countries 285 M

Strengthening ERA foundations 320 M

• Structuring ERA
• Research and Innovation 290 M
• Human resources 1580 M
• Research Infrastructures 655 M
• Science/Society 80 M

Joint Research Centres 760 M
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The IST vision

• Building the knowledge society for ALL
• Bringing the users, people, to the foreground..
  to the centre of our attention
• 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 ..

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GEANT The Flagship of Networking Activities in
Europe

• GÉANT - creating the pan-European network
  infrastructure to explore developments in
  telecommunications technology

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Interconnect Research Networks
Virtual Silk Highway
GEANT
Russia
TransPAC
TEIN
Japan
Projects GRIDs
China
EUMEDIS
_at_LIS
India
Central Africa
AMPATH
Singapore
Brazil
Australia
South Africa
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IST planning
2006
2005
2004
2003
Year
964,000
935,000
891,000
835,000
Indicative Budget
One call drawingon 2005 budget
Calls per year
Two calls drawing on 2003 and 2004 budgets
Second WP (covers also all topics of SP) with
updated focus
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FP6-IST Call 2

• Date for Publication 17/06/2003
• Closing date 15/10/2003
• Indicative budget 525 Meuro
• One stage evaluation

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FP6-IST Call 2 - Areas
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Advanced displays
Call 2
25 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• organic materials, lightweight near-to-the-eye
  information terminals and large size displays
• Research Tasks
• organic display technologies
• display solutions for small form factor high
  information content communicators
• overcoming todays 3D multi-viewer dynamic
  visualisation complexity and limitations

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Optical, opto-electronic, photonic functional
components
Call 2
45 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• photonic materials and heterostructures and
  their integration with microelectronic
• optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEIC) for
  telecom, medical and environment
• solid-state light sources to increase
  compactness, tunability and brightness
• Research Tasks
• materials, microoptics and micro- and nano-scale
  photonic structures
• devices and integrated photonic circuits
• sources ultra-short pulse, microcavities and
  source array technologies

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Embedded systems
Call 2
50 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• modelling, design implementation of
  cost-efficient, high confidence
  hardware/software systems embedded in
  intelligent devices
• Research Tasks
• networked embedded systems, middleware for small
  wireless devices, self-organising platforms for
  ad-hoc networking, incl. advanced controls
• system design, with focus on correct handling of
  complex constraints (including real time,
  advanced controls)

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Open development platforms for software and
services
Call 2
55 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• open development and run-time environments for
  software and services
• to support all phases of the software / service
  life-cycle
• Research Tasks
• system design, development and integration,
  addressing complexity, autonomy, composability
• development environments, supporting different
  adaptable development processes, across the
  development life-cycle
• workflows for co-operative and distributed
  development

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Cognitive systems
Call 2
25 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• systems that can perceive, understand and
  interact with their environment, achieving
  human-like performance
• Research Tasks
• robust and adaptive cognitive systems
  integrating perception, reasoning,
  representation and learning
• capable of interpretation, physical interaction
  and communication in real-world environments

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Applications and services for the mobile user and
worker
Call 2
60 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• services being seamlessly accessed and provided
  anywhere, anytime
• enabling new business models, new ways of
  working, improved customer relations and
  government services
• Research Tasks
• services that deploy wearable interfaces,
  enabling context-sensitivity, user profiling
• and personalisation, multiple modes of
  interaction
• collaboration of multi-location and mobile
  workers
• major hurdles for deployment of services for the
  mobile user

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Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment
Call 2
55 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• multimedia technologies enabling multi-channel,
  cross-platform access to media, entertainment
  and leisure content
• covering the full digital content chain
• Research Tasks
• new, compelling forms of content
• integrated content programming environments

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GRID-based systems for complex problem solving
Call 2
45 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• computing and knowledge Grids and peer-to-peer
  approaches to solving complex problems
• Research Tasks
• next generation GRID security, programming
  environments, resource management business
  models for new services, customisable middleware,
  interoperability with existing GRID and
  Webservices
• enabling application technologies modelling,
  simulation, datamining, visualisation, process
  control, remote operation collaborative working
  in dynamic virtual organisations

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Improving risk management
Call 2
30 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• improved risk management, civil security
  applications and environmental management
• Research Tasks
• integrated system for the prevention and the
  management of emergencies
• prevention and management of industrial and
  terrorist threats
• environmental and crisis management

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eInclusion
Call 2
30 MEuro

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• equal access and participation for all
• persons with disabilities and ageing citizens
• Research Tasks
• interfaces, sensors and robotics to be
  integrated in assistive devices
• improved web usability for digitally
  disadvantaged persons
• intelligent housing for persons with special
  needs

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Services and product engineering 2010
Joint call with priority 3

• Key Objectives Breakthroughs
• collaborative technologies and methods for
  extended service and product design and
  development approaches,
• with focus on new holistic product/service
  concepts
• Research Tasks
• collaborative technologies and methodologies
• integration of miniaturised devices (e.g. smart
  tags, sensors) and related software into
  end-products
• optimisation of value creation processes in
  manufacturing
• holistic product design, development and
  distribution tools and methods in a rich variety
  of sectoral settings

25 MEuro 35
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FET OPEN Scheme
60 MEuro

• Research implemented through STRePs / Specific
  Targeted Research Projects
• 2-step process
• a short anonymous proposal submitted first, at
  any time
• full proposal only if short proposal was
  successful
• Support for research communities through CAs /
  Coordination Actions and SSAs / Specific Support
  Actions
• 1-step process
• Three evaluation cut-off dates per year
• 13 May 2003, 16 September 2003, 13 January 2004,
  11 May 2004, 14 September 2004,

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FET Proactive Initiatives Call Planning
40 MEuro

• 3rd Call (tentative subjects and deadline)
• Quantum information processing and communication
• Molecular computing
• Global computing
• Life-like perception and cognition systems

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Rules for participation for Latin American
organisations

• ? In conformity with the interests of the EU
• ? Of substantial added value for implementing EU
  Sciences Policy
• ? Together with the minimum number of legal
  entities from the Community and Associated
  States.
• ? With Community funding as INCO target country

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Countries participation in the IST/FP5 Programme
350
300
302
250
142
200
150
44
41
38
32
100
23
22
50
0
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The future

• ? International Co-operation in IST / FP6
• An essential element of the programme
• ? Expert for evaluation and review in FP6
  www.cordis.lu/experts/fp6_candidature.htm
• ? The annual ISTevent Milan 2-4 October 2003
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent
  /2003/index_en.htm