Presentation held by Mr. Vladimir Ristevski as a part of the WINS ICT Call 7 Session at the 8th SEEITA and 7th MASIT Open Days Conference, 14th-15th October, 2010

1. Workprogramme ICT 2011-12
Vladimir Ristevski
National contact point for ICT
Agency for Electronic Communications

2. Outline
Introduction:
Context
Strategy
Structure
Challenges and objectives
Budget and call implementation
Call timing
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3. INTRODUCTION:
CONTEXT, STRATEGY, STRUCTURE

4. Strategy: EU funding as a leverage
Synergies between Private and Public Sector
Collaboration across different sectors
Focus on risky research areas where market failures
may impede investment
Budget to support more than 15.000 researchers per
year
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5. Strategy: WP Structure
 Limited set of Challenges with mid‐to‐long term
goals (5‐10y) + FET
 Each Challenge: limited set of Objectives
 Each Objective:
 Set of Targeted Outcomes
 Their Expected Impact on industrial competitiveness an
d on addressing policy and socio‐economic goals
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6. Technology Push and Application Pull
ICT for socio-economic challenges
~10%
~11% ~12%
~9% ~6% ~4%
5. ICT for 6. ICT for
7. ICT for 8. ICT for
Health, Lower-
Manufac. & Learning &
Ageing, Carbon
~ budget shares Enterprise Cultural
Inclusion Economy
Resources
1. Network and & Gov.
Service ~26% ~11%
Infrastructures
Basic ICT technologies &
Technologies (FET)
Future & Emerging
2. Cognitive
infrastructures
Systems and
Robotics ~6%
3. Component
and ~17%
Systems
4. Digital ~7%
Content and
Languages
International cooperation, Cooperation in an enlarged Europe, Pre-commercial Procurement

7. Main changes from previous WPs
Future
Challenge 1 Internet PPP
Current Challenge 4
(Technologies for digital content and languages)
Former Challenge 4
(Digital Libraries and Content) Current Challenge 8
(ICT for learning and access to cultural resources)
Former Challenge 5
(Towards sustainable and
personalized healthcare)
Current Challenge 5
Former Challenge 7 (ICT for health, ageing well, inclusion and
governance)
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(ICT for mobility, env. sust. and (ICT for low carbon economy) kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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8. SMEs
•SME involvement:
•To finance R&D and innovate products
•To build strategic partnerships and operate in wider markets
•SME presence:
•Photonics, security, embedded systems, ICT for health and
ageing (ch. 1, 3, 5)
•Development of open platforms for digital content and service
provision and delivery (FI PPP)
•SME targeted instruments:
•Small sized projects, SME dominated consortia
•Two step procedure (obj. 4.1 and FET Open) 10

9. Final Users
 User involvement (specification and requirements,
validation)
 ICT innovation to address societal challenges (health,
ageing, energy, environment, transport, manufacturing,
learning and culture) ‐> ch.5‐8
 ICT technologies to support highly demanding usage
scenarios -> ch.1‐4

10. Links to related activities
Joint Technology Initiatives
(industrial, application driven research, 2‐3y):
ENIAC
ARTEMIS
Joint National Programmes:
AAL (market oriented R&D on ICT‐based solutions for ageing well, 2‐
3y)
Eurostars
Other FP7 Themes (NMP, Env, Trans):
PPPs of the European Economic Recovery Plan: EEB, FoF, GC
Capacities eInfrastructure
CIP ICT‐PSP
Eureka, EIROforum
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11. Funding Schemes and Submission Procedures
Collaborative Projects (CP)
Small or medium‐scale focused research projects (STREP)
Large‐scale integrating projects (IP)
Networks of Excellence (NoE)
Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)
Coordination Action (CA)
Support Action (SA)
Single Stage submission (full project proposal)
Two Stage submission (FET Open and obj. 4.1):
First step: 5 page project proposal (concept & objectives)
Second step: full project proposal
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12. CHALLENGES AND OBJECTIVES:
CONTENT OF CALLS FOR PROPOSALS

13. Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network
and Service Infrastructures
Obj. 1.1: Future Networks
Obj. 1.2: Cloud Computing, Internet of
Services and Advanced Software
Engineering
Obj. 1.3: Interconnected Objects
(Internet of Things)
Obj. 1.4: Trustworthy ICT
Obj.1.5: Networked Media and Search
Systems
Obj. 1.6: Future Internet Research
and Experimentation (FIRE)
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14. Future Internet PPP
Goals:
to strengthen and further expand the competitive position
of the European telecommunication operators, mobile devices
manufacturers, software and service industries, content
providers and media
to contribute to the irreversible policy trend towards a more
sustainable society, by demonstrating that key business
processes can be made smarter through tighter integration
with Internet capabilities
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15. Future Internet PPP
Obj. 1.7: Technology foundation: Future Internet Core Platform
Obj. 1.8: Use Case scenarios and pilots
Obj. 1.9: Capacity Building and Infrastructure Support
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16. Challenge 2 (obj.2.1): Cognitive Systems and
Robotics
• Artificial cognitive systems and robots that operate in
dynamic, non‐ deterministic, real‐life environments
• Research on engineering robotic systems and on endowing
artificial systems with cognitive capabilities
• Goal: improve competitiveness in existing and future markets
(e.g., manufacturing, professional and domestic services), and
provide innovative solutions in areas including assistance and
co‐working, production, logistics and transport, construction,
maintenance and repair, search and rescue, exploration and
inspection, systems monitoring and control, consumer
robotics, education and entertainment
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17. Challenge 3: Alternative Paths to Components
and Systems
 Research focus: electronic and photonic components, integrated
micro/nanosystems, embedded systems, and monitoring &
control technologies
 Technology trends: further miniaturisation and increased
performance in electronics and in systems, addition of new
functionalities( likesensing, actuating, communicating), mastering
system complexity, and alternative routes to new components
and systems such as new nanoelectronic devices, photonics and
organic electronics
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Silvia Vecchi - ARIC - Università di Bologna

18. Challenge 3: obj. 3.1 & 3.2
(complementarity with ENIAC)
Obj. 3.1: Very advanced nanoelectronic components:
design, engineering, technology and manufacturability
Obj. 3.2: Smart components and smart systems integration
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19. Challenge 3: obj. 3.3 & 3.4
(complementarity with ARTEMIS)
 Obj. 3.3: New paradigms for embedded systems, monitoring
and control towards complex systems engineering
 Obj. 3.4: Computing Systems
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20. Challenge 3: obj. 3.5 & 3.6
 Obj. 3.5: Core and disruptive photonic technologies
 Obj. 3.6: Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics and
Photonics
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21. Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content
and Languages
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22. Challenge 4: obj. 4.1 & 4.2
Obj. 4.1: SME initiative on Digital Content and
Languages
Obj.4.2: Language Technologies
Obj. 4.3: Digital Preservation
Obj.4.4: Intelligent Information Management
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23. Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well,Incl
usion and Governance
Advanced ICT research for sustainable high‐quality
healthcare, demographic ageing, social and econo
mic inclusion,and the governance of our societies
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24. Challenge 5: obj. 5.1 & 5.2
 Obj. 5.1: Personal Health Systems - PHS
 Obj. 5.1: Virtual Physiological Human
 Obj. 5.3: Patient Guidance Services, safety and healthcare record
information reuse
 Obj. 5.4: ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing
 Obj. 5.5: ICT for smart and personalised inclusion
 Obj. 5.6: ICT solutions for governance and policy modeling

25. Challenge 6:
ICT for a low carbon economy
Exploiting ICT to conserve our natural resources
Towards effective low‐carbon multi‐modal mobility
and freight
Enabling a low‐carbon economy with Cooperative
Systems
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26. Challenge 6:
 Obj. 6.1: Smart Energy Grids
 Obj. 6.2: ICT systems for energy efficiency
 Obj. 6.3: ICT for efficient water resources management
 Obj. 6.4: ICT for energy‐efficient buildings and spaces
of public use (EEB PPP)
 Obj.6.5: ICT for energy‐positive neighbourhoods
 Obj.6.6: Low carbon multi‐modal mobility and freight
transport
 Obj.6.7: Cooperative Systems for energy efficient
and sustainable mobility
 Obj. 6.8: ICT for fully electric vehicles (Green Car PPP)
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27. Challenge 7: ICT for Enterprise and Manufacturing
(FoF PPP)
Improving the efficiency, adaptability and sustainability
of manufacturing systems as well as their better integration
within business processes in an increasingly globalised
industrial context.
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28. Challenge 7: obj. 7.1 & 7.2
 Obj. 7.1: Smart Factories: Energy‐aware, agile manufacturing
and customization
 Obj. 7.2: Manufacturing solutions for new ICT products ‐ "from
lab to fab" approach
 Obj.7.3: Virtual Factories and enterprises
 Obj. 7.4: Digital factories: Manufacturing design and product
lifecycle management
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29. Challenge 8: ICT for Learning and Access to
Cultural Resources
ICT technologies to provide flexible and efficient
access to relevant information and knowledge, fo
r educational and cultural purposes
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30. Challenge 8: obj. 8.1 & 8.2
 Obj. 8.1: Technology‐enhanced learning
 Obj. 8.2: ICT for access to cultural resources
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31. Future and Emerging Technologies
 FET is the ICT incubator and pathfinder for new ideas and themes
for long‐term research in the area of information and
communication technologies.
 Its mission is to promote high risk research, offset by potential
breakthrough with high technological or societal impact.
FET Proactive
Top-down Single
step Calls
FET Open
Bottom-up Two
steps Continuous
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submission

32. FET Open: objectives
Obj. 9.1: Challenging current Thinking
Obj. 9.2: High‐Tech Research Intensive SMEs in FET
research
Obj.9.3: FET Young Explorers
Obj. 9.4: International cooperation on FET research
(single step)
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33. FET Proactive: obj. 9.6, 9.7 & 9.8
 Obj. 9.6: Unconventional Computation
 Obj. 9.7: Dynamics of Multi‐Level Complex Systems
 Obj. 9.8: Minimising Energy Consumption of
Computing to the Limit
 Obj. 9.9: Quantum ICT
 Obj. 9.10: Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems
 Obj. 9.11: Neuro‐Bio‐Inspired Systems
Obj. 9.13: Exa‐scale computing, software and simulation
Obj. 9.14: Joint Call ICT‐SSH on 'Science of Global
Systems‘
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34. International Cooperation
 Obj. 10.1: EU‐Brazil Research and Developm
ent cooperation
 Microelectronics/Microsystems
 Control Systems
 Future Internet ‐ experimental facilities, security, e‐
Infrastructures
 Obj. 10.2: EU‐Russia Research and Develop
ment cooperation
 Programming Models and Runtime Support
 Performance Analysis Tools for High‐Performance Computing
 Optimisation
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35. BUDGET AND CALL IMPLEMENTATION

36. ICT 2011‐12 Budget distribution by Challenge
Challenge WP11‐12
Ch1 625,0
Ch2 155,0
Ch3 401,5
Ch4 165,0
Ch5 2590,
Ch6 280,0
Ch7 140,0
Ch8 1000,
FET 260,0 kkkkk
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37. ICT 2011‐12 Budget distribution by call
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38. Call Timeline (Publication)
ICT call 7: 28 September 2010
ICT call 8: Spring/Summer 2011
ICT call 9: Autumn 2011
FI‐PPP 2010: July 2010, FI‐PPP 2011, FI‐PPP 2012:?
EEB 2010, EEB 2011: ?
GC 2010, GC 2011: ?
FoF 2010, FoF 2011: ?
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39. FET Open batches
Short STREP
Short STREP full STREP and
proposals start
Batch proposals end date CSA cut-off date
date submission
submission period (at 17:00 time)
period
9 09/09/2009 12/01/2010 06/07/2010
10 13/01/2010 08/06/2010 07/12/2010
11 09/06/2010 30/11/2010 17/05/2011
12 01/12/2010 03/05/2011 25/10/2011
13 04/05/2011 25/10/2011 10/04/2012
14 26/10/2011 10/04/2012 25/09/2012
15 11/04/2012 11/09/2012 12/03/2013
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40. REFERENCES

41. References
ICT Programme on CORDIS:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/home_en.html
ISTAG: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/istag/home_en.html
OECD Report ‐ Investing in Innovation for Long‐Term Growth (June 2009):
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/45/42983414.pdf
Information Society Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/index_en.htm
ETPs: http://cordis.europa.eu/technology‐platforms/home_en.html
ICT ETPs: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/tl/research/priv_invest/etp/index_en.htm
JTIs: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/jtis/home_en.html
ICT JTIs: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/tl/research/priv_invest/jti/index_en.htm
ARTEMIS: www.artemis‐ju.eu
ENIAC: www.eniac.eu
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42. References
 European Economic Recovery Plan 2010‐2013 Public Private Partnerships
(PPPs) in Research Activities:
 http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=newsalert&lg=en&year=2009&na=p
pp‐310309
 http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/lists/list_114_en.html
 Future Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/index_en.htm
 AAL Joint Programme: www.aal‐europe.eu
 CIP ICT‐PSP:
 http://ec.europa.eu/cip/ict‐psp/index_en.htm
 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
 COST: http://www.cost.esf.org/
 EUREKA : www.eureka.be
 EIROforum: http://www.eiroforum.org/
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43. Thank You
Vladimir Ristevski
Agency for Electronic Communications
National contact point for ICT in Republic of Macedonia
vladimirristevski@gmail.com
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