Ms. Cristina Martinez, Head of FInES Cluster, presented the FInES Cluster's Strategic directions for 2012. She outlined the FInES areas of activity and proposed the next steps. (FInES Cluster Meeting, December 2012)

1. FInES Cluster :
Strategic directions for 2012
Cristina Martinez
Head of FInES Cluster
INFSO D4, European Commission
European Commission, Brussels
FInES Cluster meeting, 19-20 December, 2011

2. INFSO Policy Context and Timeframe
• Other Europe 2020
Flagship Initiatives
2012 FIA Conference
FInES Conference
• 29/6 Multi-annual Financial
DAE Conference Framework (MFF) proposal
? Princeton • WP 2013 Preparation
workshop
• Digital Agenda for Europe
2013 • Connecting Europe Facility
• MFF decision
• WP 2013 calls
• CSF decision
2014
HORIZON 2020

3. Horizon 2020: Structure of the
proposed Framework Programme
Europe 2020 priorities
European Research Area
International cooperation
Shared objectives and principles
Tackling Societal Challenges Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Frameworks
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Leadership in enabling and industrial
Food security and the bio-based economy technologies
Secure, clean and efficient energy ICT
Smart, green and integrated transport Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and
Supply of raw materials Processing
Resource efficiency and climate action Biotechnology
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Simplified access Dissemination & knowledge tranfer
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

4. 2012: A transition year towards
H2020
• Technology matured but critical issues to be
solved (EU enterprise competitiveness, Future
Manufacturing, the rise of the digital society,
transition to a new paradigm for our society, etc.)
• New research programmes, end of FP7, revision of
the DAE, re-orientation of the priorities for the
research family to cope with societal challenges
• A WP in 2013 (CfP)
• But also new opportunities…
– Focus on innovation
– Entrepreneurship
– EU manufacture
– New instruments, simplification
– Change, change, change!

5. FInES Cluster Strategy for 2012
Catalysing the Competitiveness of European
Enterprises
• Scope: Re-focus and reach out based on a clear
vision of the domain (FInES Position Paper)
• Mission: for 2012: We target business value
innovation in open paradigms, structurally
embedded in future enterprise systems
• Toolbox: 14 Task Forces, 19 projects, a support
project (ENSEMBLE), massive online presence…
and a dynamic & committed community!
• Evaluation: cluster KPI to measure progress
• Risk analysis?

6. FInES Areas of Activity 1/4
• Policy
– Objective: Supporting change of culture
“Everyone can be an enterprise”, promoting
the value of Collaboration & Innovation –
framed into the EU policy context
– Plan is needed:
• Promoting our work (internally and externally)
• Investing efforts in reaching out to other
communities (DAE, horizontal innovation actions,
International, clusters) but also the socio-
economic circles
• Focusing on key subjects (as FInES Position
Paper and Research Roadmap)

7. FInES Areas of Activity 2/4
• Research
– Objective: Building a world-class community of
multi-disciplinary researchers (focused and
proposing only AV research) for our domain
– Plan based on our Research Roadmap is
needed:
• Building a Science base / common
understanding (scientific publications…)
• Targeting and reinforcing our industry dimension
• Encouraging disruptive and bottom-up research
(grass-root innovation, arts, digital
entrepreneur.)
• Focused on the network circle (the Network is
the Enterprise)

8. FInES Areas of Activity 3/4
• Dissemination
– Objective: Reinforcing our visibility & reaching
out to new communities (int’l, regional network,
FI-PPP) through our TF
– Communication plan is needed:
• Cluster publications (Research Roadmap)
• Scientific publications (CTF and SP TF) -
Guidelines
• Events participation (CEBIT – Technology TF) and
Workshops organisation (FIA Aalborg, Princeton,
others?) - Guidelines
• Web presence (more videos) and social media -
Gdl

9. FInES Areas of Activity 4/4
• Exploitation
– Objective: Demonstrating our value
proposition (to policy makers, to users,
to citizens)
– Exploitation plan is needed:
• Impact creation (industry, SMEs, change of
culture) through use cases and showcases –
value of collaboration. Need for clear
standardisation plan.
• Results exploitation (adoption of results:
regional link, targeted associations): shared
assets, bag of assets, visualization of assets
(people, knowledge, etc.)

10. Next steps
• Adoption and publication of the
FInES Strategy and Action Plan
(ENSEMBLE with collective support)
• Enacting identified initiatives
• Preparations for FInES key events
• Major Reports ahead (RR, TF, etc.)
• Next cluster meeting: TD (March
2012)
• Celebrate the end of the year!

11. What are we waiting for?

12. Questions?
For further details, please refer to our online resources:
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/clusters_en.html
www.fines-cluster.eu
Or contact us:
INFSO-FINES@ec.europa.eu
Cristina.Martinez@ec.europa.eu
Michael.DE-BOER@ext.ec.europa.eu
Thank you for your attention!