This document outlines funding opportunities for various ICT-related challenges, research areas, and activities under Horizon2020. It provides details on funding levels, budgets, objectives, and types of projects (e.g. collaborative projects, coordination and support actions) for areas such as future internet, big data, language technologies, internet of things, and more. The overall goal is to support innovation and advancements in key ICT domains through research and development projects.

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ICT CHALLENGE 3 FUTURE
INTERNET

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1.A.3.3 Advanced Cloud
infrastructures and Services
• A. Research
– High performance, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures
– Federated cloud networking
– Automated service composition
– Cloud security
• B. Innovation platforms for trusted cloud systems
• C. Coordination and support actions
– Common reference models for SLAs in the cloud
– Support collaboration
• A. CP funding level: 100%, budget: 58M
• B. CP Innovation, funding level: 70%, budget: 5M
• C. CSA funding level: 100%, budget 2M

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1.A.3.4 Boosting Public sector
productivity and innovation through
cloud computing services
• A. Pre-commercial procurement for public sector
cloud computing services (PLP)
• B. Joint procurement of innovative cloud computing
solutions (PPI)
• A. PCP funding level: 70%, budget: 9 million of
which maximum 30% for the coordination part of
the activities.
• B. PPI funding level: 20%, budget: 14 million

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1.A.3.4 Tools and Methods for
Software Development
• Software tools and methods for large, complex and
data-intensive systems
• Software architectures and tools for highly
distributed applications
• CP, funding level: 100%, budget 22M

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1.A.3.6 Collective Awareness
Platforms for Sustainability and
Social Innovation
• Challenge is to harness the collaborative power of ICT
networks (people, knowledge and sensors) to create collective
and individual awareness of the multiple sustainability threats
our society faces.
• A. Collective awareness pilots: bottom-up participatory
innovation paradigms
• B. coordinating pilots and research activities in the area of
collective awareness platforms
• C. Provide seed funding for emerging ideas for collective
awareness platforms
• A. CP funding 70%, budget 30M
• B. CSAs budget 3M
• C. CP funding 100%, budget 4M

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1.A.3.7 FIRE+ (Future Internet
Research & Experimentation)
• A. Coordination and Support Actions: Identification of European,
national and regional experimental facilities, testbeds and
laboratories available for integration into FIRE+ in a heterogeneous
but reconfigurable and evolving arrangement.
• B. Research Actions:
– Projects with an experimentation aspects that will leverage
Europe's Research and Education Network Infrastructure
(GÉANT). Major emphasis: real-world devices
– Creation, reconfiguration and/or extension of experimental
infrastructure
• C. Innovation Actions: Collaborative Projects that would identify,
evaluate and select ideas for experimentation, testing and validation
and enable the step towards into actual experimentation planning
and execution on top of FIRE+.
• A. CSAs: 1 M€
• B. CPs, funding level: 100%: 26 M€
• C. CPs, funding level: 70%: 5 M€

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1.A.3.9 Web Enterpreneurship
• Europe needs more entrepreneurship …
• A. Accelerate web entrepreneurship in Europe:
online platforms with new services
• B. Coordination activities in the area of web
entrepreneurs
• CP funding level: 70%, 6M
• CSA: 4M

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ICT CHALLENGE 4 CONTENT
TECHNOLOGIES AND
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1.A.4.1 Big Data Innovation and
Takeup
• A. Collaborative projects establishing a European open data
integration and reuse incubator for SMEs to foster the
development of open data supply chains
• B. CSAs laying the foundation for the effective exchange and
re-use of data assets across: i) industry sectors, national
boundaries and languages, iii) public and private sectors
• C. CPs focused on innovation and technology transfer in data
analytics solutions and services
• D. Capacity building
• A. and C. CP, 70% funding budget 43M
• B. and D. CSA 100% funding budget 7M

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1.A.4.2 Big Data Research
• A. Research
– CPs novel data structures, algorithms, software
architectures, optimisation and language technologies for
data analytics, prediction, visualisation at extremely large
scale.
– CPs for relevant benchmarks.
• B. Support actions for challenges and prize
schemes
• A. CP 100% funding, budget 38M
• B. CSA, 100% funding, budget 1M

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1.A.4.3 Cracking the language
barrier
• A. Machine translation
• B. Innovative pilots for optimising translation quality
• C. Coordination actions benchmarking
• A. CP, 100% funding, budget 4M
• B. CP, 70% funding, budget 10M
• C. CSA, 100% funding budget: 1M

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1.A.4.4 Support the growth of ICT
innovative creative industries SMEs
The scope is to stimulate the adoption and development of ICT-
intensive innovation solutions by the creative industries SMEs.
• A. Innovation projects to support creative industries SMEs to
advance emerging ICT technologies for the development of
innovative products, tools, applications or services with high
commercial potential.
• B. Coordination and support actions: accelerating and
supporting the growth of European creative industries
exploiting advanced ICT for the development of new products
and services and ICT SMEs innovating in the field of creative
industries.
• A. EUR 14 million – SME instrument
• B. EUR 1 million for CSA

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1.A.4.5 Technologies for creative
industries, social media and
convergence
The focus is on research, development and exploitation of new emerging
technologies for digital content creation, distribution and use to support
the creative and media industries.
• A. Research in new technologies and tools to support creative
industries in the creative process from idea conception to production
• B. Demonstration of the viability of new technologies and validation of
innovative solutions through large scale demonstrations, pilots or
testing of use cases as to guarantee sustainable deployment that
facilitate convergence and integration between broadcasting
broadband Internet-based services, audiovisual and social media.
• C. Coordination and Support Actions on Convergence and Social
Media
• A. Collaborative projects, funding level 100%: 19 M€
• B. Collaborative projects, funding level 70%: 22 M€
• C. CSAs: 2 M€

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1.A.4.6 Adaptive and cognitive
systems for human learning
Based on technological advances underpinned by research carried
out so far, activities will support networking, capacity building and
experimentations in methodologies and tools for data-drive, non-
linear approaches to adaptive learning and remediation technologies
and cognitive artefacts for effective and efficient human learning.
• A. Facilitate fast and agile joint technological research
experimentations on smart learning environments providing
students with adaptive and personalized learning and
assessment.
• B. Establishing a technology platform on adaptive learning
technologies and analytics for learning to provide a framework for
stakeholders, led by industry, to define research priorities and
action plans, developing and updating research roadmaps on
learning technologies and analytics.
• A. CP – funding level: 100%, budget: 9 million.
• B. CSA – budget: 1 million

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1.A.4.7 Advance digital
gaming/gamification technologies
• A. Create an environment enabling fast and agile
multidisciplinary research experimentations and collaboration
on advanced digital gaming technologies and components
produced by and for the traditional digital game industry but
applied into a wider scenario of use in non-leisure contexts.
• B. Stimulate technology transfer and new non-leisure
applications by SMEs traditionally working on digital games
thus underpinning new market developments on digital games
for learning and skills acquisition.
• A. CP, funding level: 100%, budget: 9 MEUR
• B. SME instrumented budget (Phase 2): 4MEUR (up to
350.000 EUR per project)

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1.A.4.8 Multimodal and Natural
computer interaction
• A. The aim is to develop and validate innovative multimodal
interfaces to deliver more efficient and natural ways of
interacting with computers and improving users’ experiences.
• B. The objective is to provide interactive information retrieval
systems with more efficient and natural ways of delivering
answers to users’ queries especially in unexpected and/or
difficult circumstances.
• A. Collaborative projects with funding level of 70% and an
overall funding of EUR 10 million
• B. Collaborative projects with funding level of 100% and an
overall funding of EUR 10 million

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1.A.8.1 Internet of Things and
Platforms for connected smart
objects
The scope is to create ecosystems of “Platforms for Connected
Smart Objects”, integrating the future generation of devices,
network technologies and other evolving ICT advances. These
environments support citizen and businesses for a multiplicity of
novel applications
• A. R&I projects focuses on
– Architectural and semantic concepts
– Dynamically configured infrastructure platforms
– Reference implementations incl. proof-of concept, large-scale
demonstrations and validation driven by innovative use scenarios, also
leveraging on platforms developed elsewhere in the program.
• B. Support Measures
• A. CP, funding level 100%, budget 52.5 M€
• B. CSA, funding level 100%, budget 1 M€

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1.A.8.2 Human-centric Digital Age
• A. The research activities should aim at in-depth exploration of
the development of fundamental notions such as identity,
privacy, reputation, motivations, responsibility, attention, and
fairness, in the hyper-connected age where the limits between
offline and online are blurred in numerous ways.
• B. The coordination and support activities should facilitate
community building between ICT developers, researchers in
SSH and other disciplines, and stakeholders.
• A. CPs budget: 7 M€
• B. CSAs, budget: 1 M€

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INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION

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1.A.10.1 International partnership
building and support to dialogues
with high income countries
• Organisation of events synchronised with dialogue meetings
• Strengthening cooperative research links, setup of sustainable
cooperative mechanisms
• Target high income countries/regions
• A. North America (canada, USA)
• B East Asia/Oceania (Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand,
Singapore, Taiwan)
• 89M in total for 2014 and 2015 in continuously open call
• Small collaborative project for innovation (up to 2M up to 5
partners) funding level 70%
• CSA 4M