The components of FP6

1. Information about the Fifth IST CallMatteo BantiEuropean Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General Software Technologies

2. The components of FP6

3. ~200M€ for GEANT/GRID ~100M€ for GEANT/GRID 16270 M€ 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 S&T needs • Anticipating needs 555 M€ • SMEs 430 M€ • Specific INCO 315 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 Centre 760 M€

4. IST in FP6 - objectives & strategy • Main objectives • Establishing Europe’s leadership in the technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy and society • Strengthening Europe’s competitiveness & technology base • Building the information and knowledge society for ALL • Strategy • Concentration and focus, building critical mass • Visionary, forward looking (longer term / high risk) • Combine flexibility with greater speed in implementation • Scope of activities: Core technologies & “pull-through” applications

5. 2003 2004 2005 Call 1 Apr 03 Call 2 Oct 03 Call 3 Sept 04 Call 4 Mar 05 Call 5 Sept 05 FP6 IST Calls Timeline

6. IST WP 2005-06: Main principles & objectives • Completing the investment in the FP6 objectives • Adapting content of WP2003-04 in order to take account of: • evolving context and technology progress • lessons learnt from the response to the first calls • Preparing the start of FP7 • Developing new fields, etc.

7. IST WP 2005-06: Consultations and Collection of Input • Wide consultation • ISTC - IST Committee • ISTAG - IST Advisory Group • Programme Consultation Meetings • Web-based consultations - 5 year evaluation of IST - Review of new FP6 instruments • Portfolio analysis • IPPA - Integrated Programme Portfolio Analysis • Responses to previous Calls • Experience from past and on-going projects Changes in context and technology trends Lessons learned

8. IST Calls 2003-04 : Concentration • Concentration of effort and building critical mass • Total number of projects selected : 3 times less than FP5 for an equivalent budget • Average budget of Integrated Projects : 5 times larger than FP5 projects • Setting up & managing larger projects : a challenge

9. IST Calls 2003-04 : Integration • More intensive collaboration between various actors • Integrated Projects: 2-3 times as many partners per project • From industry, academia and public research labs • Concern over SME participation • Integration of effort in an enlarged Europe important • International co-operation

10. Lessons learnt from previous calls • Oversubscription in some fields • Need for more focus and more precision • SMEs participation • Improving but can be strengthened • Integration of the ICT research effort in an enlarged Europe • Participation of Member States that joined the EU recently and of Associated Candidate Countries below expectations • International co-operation • Domain-specific approaches are needed

11. IST WP2005-06: Focussing • Sharper descriptions of each SO • Precisions on the use of the instruments within each SO • Budget distribution between instruments adapted to each SO

12. IST Strategic Objectives 2005-06 - networked businesses - ICT for governments - collaborative work - ICT for Health - eInclusion - eSafety - environmental risk mgmt - learning - culture - ICT for Security - GRID-based systems Applied IST research for major societal and economic challenges ‘anywhere, anytime, natural access to ICT based services and applications’ Components & microsytems Communication, computing & software technologies Knowledge & interface technologies  • mobile comms • - Broadband comm • - networked audio- visual systems - software & services- embedded systems • Semantic- based knowledge and content • nano- • electronics • - photonics components - Micro/nano integration -Micro/nano sub-systems - multi-modal interfaces • cognitive • systems • research networking testbeds • integration in enlarged Europe

13. Call 5 key facts • Published: 17 May 2005 • Closes: 21 September 2005 (17:00 Brussels time) • Total Indicative budget: 638 M€ • Pre-allocation of 90% of budget • Indicative budget distribution between Instruments: per SO

14. Call 5 Strategic Objectives

15. Call 5 Photonic components 47 MEuro • Key Objectives • Advanced materials, solid-state sources and micro- and nano-scale photonic devices • Integration of photonic functions in micro/nanoelectronics components • Application contexts: • “Information technologies for health care and life science” • “Communications and Infotainment” • “Environment and security” • Focus • Manufacturing technologies and device concepts • Hybrid and monolithic photonic integration technologies • Photonic systems on a chip • Advanced components for optical networks, and low-cost components for broadband wireless/wired access; • Advanced sources

16. Call 5 Micro/nano-basedsubsystems Integrated micro/nanosystems for key products & applications • R&D focus • Healthcare: Integrated systems for point-of-care diagnosis, monitoring & drug delivery • Autonomous miniaturized (micro-)robotic systems • Mass storage systems • Novel 3D Visualisation • Other • Validation of Micro-Nano Technology enabled subsystems in different applications combining subsystem development with application RTD • Roadmap, CA, SSA to prepare research agendas • (“Micro-nano-bio-cogno” and “Smart Integrated Systems”) 58 MEuro

17. Call 5 68 MEuro Embedded systems • Key Objectives • Hardware/software systems embedded in intelligent devices • Cost-efficient ambient intelligence systems with optimal performance, high confidence, reduced time to market and faster deployment • Focus • System Design • Model-based system design, validation and testing. • Design methods, programming models and compilation tools for reconfigurable architectures. • Networked Embedded Systems • Middleware for wireless objects • Scalable and self-organising platforms • SME embedded tool developers and vendors

18. Call 5 Advanced GRID technologies, systems and services 62 MEuro • Key Objectives • Advance towards the knowledge Grid and complete virtualisation of Grid resources • Reduce the complexity of Grid-based systems • Focus • Grid Foundations: Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems • Grid-enabled applications and services for business and society • Network-centric Grid operating systems • Co-ordination of research activities in Member and Associated States in the Framework of ERA

19. Call 5 67 MEuro Software and services • Key Objectives • Engineering and management of software systems, services and applications • Open and interoperable platforms, methodologies, middleware, standards and tools. • Focus • Engineering, management and provision of services and software • Principles, methodologies and tools for design, management and simulation of complex software systems • Development, deployment, evolution and benchmarking of open source software. • Software systems with properties such as self-adaptability, flexibility, robustness, dependability and evolvability. • Support actions contributing to the evolution of the software industry

20. Call 5 18 MEuro Research Networking Testbeds • Key Objectives • User-driven large scale testbeds for preparing future upgrades of the infrastructure deployed across Europe • Focus • Integrating, testing, validating and demonstrating new fixed and wireless networking technologies • Provisioning of open test infrastructures for third party researchers • Fostering interoperability of solutions across different scientific and industrial disciplines • Developing roadmaps and strategic guidance for infrastructure development in Europe

21. Call 5 Multimodal interfaces • Key Objectives • Natural and easy to use interfaces providing: • Intelligent communication • Multi-modalities • multilingual capabilities • Focus • Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual environment • Mechanisms for selecting cognitively combinations of interface modalities according to preferences and context • Multilingual communication systems for unrestricted domains • Portability of new languages -> Emphasis is on user modelling, system design, visual recognition and tracking, language understanding and spoken language translation 54 MEuro

22. Call 5 ICT for Networked Businesses 46 MEuro • Key Objectives • Software solutions supporting organisational networking and process integration • Distributed and collaborative network-oriented systems for efficient, effective and secure product and service creation and delivery • Focus • Digital business ecosystems for SMEs • open-source environment ; design, development and take-up of flexible and adaptable software applications • Extended products and services • decentralised architectures ; new approaches to business processes • Horizontal actions • new legal challenges raised by networked and collaborative paradigms

23. Call 5 Collaborative working environments 40 MEuro • Key Objectives • Next generation collaborative working environments • Enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst humans and machines • Distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualized working environments • Focus • Concepts, methods and core services for distributed collaboration at work • Flexible management of services • Tools for collaborative work in rich virtualised environments • Services for seamless, stable, dependable and scalable applications for collaborative work • Validating of applications for collaborative work in content-rich, mobile and fixed collaborative environments • Standardisation activities

24. Call 5 Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources 36 MEuro • Key Objectives • Support the accessibility and use over time of digital cultural and scientific resources. • Support the emerging complexity of digital cultural and scientific objects and repositories • Explore how to preserve the availability of digital resources over time • Focus • Conceptualisation and representation of digital cultural and scientific objects • Application of leading-edge technologies (knowledge technologies, VR, visualisation). • Methods and systems for guaranteeing the long-term preservation of digital objects. • Test-beds and systems supporting multi-sourced and multi-formatted resources.

25. Call 5 eInclusion 29 MEuro • Key Objectives • mainstream accessibility in consumer goods and services to ensure equal access, independent living and participation for all in the Information Society. • develop next generation assistive systems • Focus • Experience and Application Research • Large scale demonstrators (smart environment, next generation mobiles, Digital TV ..) • Innovative solutions for persons with cognitive disabilities. • Support and co-ordination actions: • Federating the fragmented assistive technology industry • Structuring the co-operation among centres for accessibility resource and support. • Technology solutions to meet the challenges posed by the ageing population.

26. Call 5 ICT for Environmental Risk Management 40 MEuro • Key Objectives • ICT aspects of services for GMES (Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security) end-users • Monitoring, preparation and response phases of environmental risk/crisis management • Focus • GMES in-situ monitoring systems, in particular based on self-organising, self-healing, ad-hoc networking of sensors • Public safety communication (alert systems, communication to/from citizen and rapidly deployable emergency telecommunications systems) • Support to early adoption of common open architectures for full interoperability

27. Call 5 FET Proactive Initiatives 9 MEuro Simulating Emergent Properties in Complex Systems

28. Reccomendations to Proposers • Study the Workprogramme text carefully • - Choose the SO(s) most relevant to your proposal • Contact each relevant SO early • Is the SO Open in this call? • Is my proposal in scope? • Competition is intense – most SO are oversubscribed, only the best proposals get through • Avoid the pitfalls • Submit on time! • Check for completeness • Make the reviewers life easy

29. For Further Information General FP6: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/ http://www.cordis.lu/ IST: http://www.cordis.lu/ist IST infodesk E-Mail : ist@cec.eu.int Fax : +32 2 296 83 88

30. Call 5 Strategic Objectives contact persons