Transcript FET FP7 Workshop

Future and Emerging
Technologies
FET in FP6
Towards FP7
Pekka Karp
DG Information Society
European Commission
Plan of the Talk
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FET in IST-FP6
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FET in the IST work programme
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Preparation of the 7th EU Framework Programme
Information Society Technologies
in FP6 (~4 Billion Euro, 2003-2006)
Communication
&
Computing
Infrastructures
Components
&
Micro-Systems
Knowledge
&
Interface
Technologies
FET: 300+ M Euro in IST-FP6
Applied IST Research addressing
Major Societal & Economic Challenges
Future and Emerging Technologies: 320 M€
Future & Emerging Technologies (FET)
Objectives
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Emerging new science fields / disciplines in IST
– Not much is known, the bulk needs to be discovered
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Well established science field but a fundamental barrier
determined by science
– Addressing the barrier from a new angle
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Addressing problems that are identified to happen in
the long term
– Alternative approach, distinct from mainstream
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Problems not anticipated yet
Building the knowledge / understanding more valued
than the prototype
FET – Key Elements
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Visionary and exploratory research
Longer-term or high-risk research
‘Nursery’ of novel ideas - trend-setting - pathfinder
Embryonic – Proof-of-Concept
Interdisciplinary
Helping new IST-related S&T fields and communities to
emerge
Complementary to other IST strategic objectives
Two Parts:
– Open Domain
=> reflects research trends
– Pro-Active Initiatives (e.g. NID, QIPC, DC, LPS, ... )
=> strategic vision, common objective
FET OPEN – Modus Operandi
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Bottom-up
Any IST related topic
Continuous submission / no fixed deadline
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2-step evaluation process (STREP)
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– Short proposal : WHAT & WHY
– Full proposal : HOW
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1-step evaluation process (CA/SSA)
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WP2003-2004: 60 Mio €, WP2005-2006: 60 Mio €
Plan of the Talk
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FET in IST-FP6
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FET in the IST work programme for 2005-2006
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Preparation of the 7th EU Framework Programme
IST in FP6:
FET in IST Work Programme 2005-2006
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FET Open Scheme
– STREPs, Co-ordination Actions (CAs), Specific Support Actions (SSAs)
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Proactive Initiatives
– IST Call 4 (Nov - Dec 2004):
• Advanced Computing Architectures
• Presence and Interaction in Mixed Reality Environments
• Situated and Autonomic Communications
– IST Call 5 (May 2005):
• Simulating Emergent Properties in Complex Systems
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web consultation: www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/id.htm
FET Open projects
Proposals
Batch 1
Batch 2
Batch 3
10 Feb’03 –
13 May’03
13 May’03 –
16 Sept’03
16 Sept’03 –
13 Jan’04
TOTAL
submitted
54
63
64
181
finished
54
63
25
143
Areas Covered:
COMP
HW
IMAG
NAT
SW
TELCO
ETC
Batch 1
Batch 2
Batch 3
10 Feb’03 –
13 May’03
13 May’03 –
16 Sept’03
16 Sept’03 –
13 Jan’04
10%
27%
7%
19%
25%
7%
5%
3%
26%
6%
18%
31%
11%
5%
4%
39%
4%
13%
26%
4%
9%
TOTAL
6%
28%
7%
18%
28%
9%
6%
FET: Proactive Initiatives
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Top-down
Critical mass where focus is needed
Strategic vision, common objective
Fixed deadline calls
1-step evaluation
Call topics defined every year in consultation with
scientific community
IP & NoE only
e.g. ‘quantum information processing &
communications’ (QIPC), ‘emerging nanoelectronics’
(NID), ‘global computing’ (GC), ‘bio-inspired intelligent
information systems’
FET Proactive Initiatives
in FP6 (WP2003-2004)
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Call 1
– Beyond Robotics (New)
– Complex Systems Research (New)
– The Disappearing Computer
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Instruments
IP, NoE
IP, NoE
IP, NoE
Call 3
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Quantum Information Processing and Comm.
Emerging Nanoelectronics
Global Computing
Bio-inspired Intelligent Information Systems (New)
IP
IP, NoE
IP, NoE
IP, NoE
FET Proactive Initiatives
2004 (call 3)
Tera-scale
Nano-scale
• Emerging Nanoelectronics
• Quantum Information Processing
- In WP 2003-2004
- Wide Consultations
• Global Computing
Multidisciplinary !
• Bio-inspired Intelligent Information Systems
Complex
FET Proactive Initiatives
in FP6 (WP2005-2006)
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Call 4 (budget 60 M€)
Instruments
– Advanced Computing Architectures (New)
– Situated and Autonomic Communications (New)
IP, NoE
IP, NoE
– Presence & Interaction
in Mixed Reality Environments (New)
IP
Call in November 2004
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Call 5 (budget 10 M€)
– Simulating emergent properties in
complex systems
Call in May 2005
STREP
Advanced Computing Architectures
Research in computing architectures, compilers and operating systems
to address AmI application requirements in 10+ year frame
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Objectives:
– Increase performance of computing engines by 2 orders of magnitude
while reducing power consumption
– Portable compiler and operating system technology for
high performance and code optimisation
– Devise building blocks for integration in heterogeneous platforms
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Scope:
– From small wireless systems to large networked servers
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Multidisciplinary Integrated Projects
– Industrial participation is sought to link with application requirements
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Network of Excellence: research agenda, benchmarking & testing
Presence & Interaction
in Mixed Reality Environments
Convey the sense of being there and of
participating, acting, doing, influencing and changing things there
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Objective:
– To further the understanding of Presence in order to create novel ICT
systems that match human cognitive and affective capacities and recreate
the experiences of presence and interaction in mixed reality environments
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Focus areas:
– Understanding different forms of Presence
(i.e., aspects of perception, interaction, emotions and affect)
– Design and development of essential ICT Building Blocks capturing different
forms of Presence and based on a range of relevant HW and SW ICT
technologies (rendering, 3D representation, tracking, haptics, light control,
etc.)
– Building novel Systems supporting Presence & Interaction
(open system architectures integrating the essential building blocks, open
source authoring tools, open APIs)
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Support the realisation of Challenging and Visionary Scenarios
Integrated Projects and Co-ordination Actions
Situated and autonomic communications
A world pervaded by ubiquitous communication facilities
with self-organising and self-preserving functionalities
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Objectives:
 To define a self-organising communication network concept and technology
that can be situated in multiple and dynamic contexts
 ranging from sensor networks to virtual networks of humans
 defining decentralised optimisation strategies
 benefiting from cross-layer or non-layered approaches
– To study how strategic needs of social or commercial nature impact on future
communication paradigms, and how networks and applications can support
society and economy, enabling a service oriented, requirement and trust
driven development of communication networks
• to develop networking technologies (hardware/software combinations) that can
evolve and create maximal synergy with the other types of non-technological
networks that constitute their context
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Integrated Projects and Networks of Excellence
Simulating emergent properties in
complex systems
Framework of mathematical and computational techniques
for simulation of complex systems
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Objective:
– We can engineer components of systems: How can we predict aggregate
behaviour?
– How can we infer models from (often incomplete) data?
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Research challenges:
– How to cope with uncertainty in simulation of engineered and natural
systems?
– How to describe systems acting on multiple scales?
– How to integrate simulations on different levels?
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STREPs
Plan of the Talk
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FET in IST-FP6
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FET in the IST work programme for 2005-2006
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Preparation of the 7th EU Framework Programme
Preparing FP7:
The Roadmap and the 6+2 Axes
FP6
FP7
2004
2003
2005
2006
2007 – 2011 ...
Feb ’04
Financial Perspectives
(2007-2013)
Early ’05
Proposal
on FP
Adoption FP
16 June ’04
Science and technology, the key to Europe's future - Guidelines for
future European Union policy to support research
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FP7: 6+2 axes
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Collaborative Research
European Technological Initiatives
ERC: Basic Research Grants for individual research teams
An attractive Europe for best Researchers
Research Infrastructures
Co-ordination of national research programmes
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Space (ESA)
Security
Preparing FP7
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IST in FP7
– ERC & Basic Technology Research in ICTs  Options Paper
– Collaborative RTD:
• ISTAG (Working Group on Grand Challenges)
• Strategic Orientations
• FP7 Workshops:
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12 Oct 04: ICT at the crossroads with Life Sciences
 8-9 Nov 04: Extended Interaction & Communication Environments
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Collaborative Basic Technology Research in ICTs in FP7
– Call for Co-ordination Actions for preparing FP7
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New Projects: BEYOND-THE-HORIZON
– FET Workshops
• FET/NSF Workshops:
 April 04: Ubiquitous Computing
 May 04: Software Intensive Systems
 Sep 04: Unconventional Programming Paradigms
• FET FP7 Workshop (21-22 April 04)
ICT at the crossroads with Life Sciences
(workshop of 12 Oct 04)
CONVERGENGING TECHNOLOGIES
 Research at the crossroads of medical
informatics, bioinformatics, systems biology
& neuroinformatics
 Research on ICT systems inspired by nature
BIO
NANO
COGNITION
IT
 Integration of ICT systems with the living
world
Extended Interaction &
Communication Environments
(workshops of 8-9 Nov 04)
Robots,
Sensors&
Actuators
Network
ContextAwareness
& selfadaptation
 Extended environments
Connecting people and delivering new
experiences
 Extended human capabilities
Augmenting people
 Extended interaction and content
Creating and interacting with mixed-reality
spaces & robot systems
Content
and
Mixed-Reality
 Human Responsive Systems
2 Workshops on
Robotics & Interaction Technologies
Collaborative Basic Technology
Research Directions in FP7
Components Research
Computing & Communications
Economics
Social Sciences
Materials
Core ICTs
IT, Communications,
Interfaces
Neuro
sciences
ICT Systems & People
Cognitive
sciences
Biology &
Life-sciences
Intelligence & Cognition
Findings of FET FP7 Workshop
(21-22 April 2004)
Four Thematic Sessions
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Technical Sessions:
– Components Research
– Systems Research
– Intelligence & Cognition Research
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Strategy for ICT-based collaborative basic research in FP7
FET FP7 Workshop:
Grand Challenges
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Components
Grand Challenge
Building a validated alternative or
complement to CMOS technology by 2015
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Systems
Grand Challenge
Modelling, simulation, design and control of large scale systems
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Intelligence & Cognition
Grand Challenge
Toward Natural Cognition
Building embodied artificial cognitive systems
inspired by biology, in particular neuroscience
Information on IST
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IST on CORDIS
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/
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IST in FP6
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm
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Future and Emerging Technologies
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/home.html
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ADDITIONAL SLIDES
FET FP7 Workshop:
Research Challenges in Components
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Invest in innovative nano-scale materials science
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Master interfaces at unprecedented levels
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New & cost-effective fabrication techniques
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Miniaturisation beyond the nanometre scale
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Master giga-complexity ICT architectures
FET FP7 Workshop:
Research Challenges in Complex Systems
Grand Challenge:
Modelling, simulation, design and control of large scale systems
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Inferring Systems Models from Incomplete / inconsistent Information
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Control and Integrated Design of Many level, Many Unit, Many
Purpose (Complex) Systems
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Developing the Foundations for Software Intensive Systems
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Design & Deployment of Human responsive systems
FET FP7 Workshop:
Research Challenges in Intelligence & Cognition
Grand Challenge: Toward Natural Cognition
Building artificial cognitive systems
inspired by biology, in particular neuroscience
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Main Research Challenges:
– Exploration of non-classical computation and development of robust scalable selfconstructing/repairing architectures
– Exploiting evolutionary and individual development and building cognitive systems
with self-regulation and self-maintenance
– Investigation of emergent properties of large scale structures
– Achievement of high-level cognition by bottom-up organisation
Strategy for
collaborative basic research in FP7
Main issues addressed:
 Selecting future research directions in FP7
– Through Grand Challenges, Key Technological issues, Social Drivers
– Research in core ICTs and in their combination with other disciplines
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Research excellence beyond national boundaries
– Promote Excellence & Multi-disciplinary Research
– International Co-operation to attract “best brains” & breed Excellence
– Link Programmes to Education & Training: Permeate Research Culture in all
Educational levels & Introduce Education as a project deliverable
– Metrics for Measuring Research Excellence in Projects & Programmes
– Achieving ERA through ICT Research: Co-sponsorship with national Funding Agencies
– Dissemination & promotion of research results: Multi-faceted mechanisms going
beyond scientific publications
Strategy for
collaborative basic research in FP7
Main issues addressed (cnt’d):
 Strengthen Academia - Industry Collaboration
– Open Environment for Research with Industrial Involvement
– Many different models of Industry involvement: from observers to matching research
funds
– Clarify IPRs
– Several new emerging models of collaboration: networked regional platforms &
networks of competence, centres of excellence, etc.
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Mechanisms for integrating New Member & Accession States
– No need for positive discrimination, but strong need for:
• Improving research infrastructures: structural funds & RTD projects
• Accelerating research community building