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Future and Emerging Technologies
European Commission - DG CONNECT Excellence in Science
Aymard de Touzalin, Deputy Head of Unit March 26, 2013
FET IN FP7
Pathfinding future ICT
• Establishing new foundations for future ICT
•
• Redefines the conventional boundaries of ICT • Venturing into uncharted territories
• Relying on fresh synergies, cross-pollination and convergence with different scientific disciplines
E.g. Biology, chemistry, nano- and molecular science, neuro- and cognitive science, ethology, social science, economics, including the arts and humanities
• Nurture early proofs-of-concept into novel directions for mainstream research and innovation
FET mission in FP7
FET
Interdisciplinary
Novelty
S&T targeted
Foundational
High-Risk
Long-term vision
FET components
FET – three complementary approaches ('schemes')
FET Open
Individual research
projects
Early Ideas
FET Proactive
Research clusters
Incubation
FET Flagships
Common research
agendas
Large-Scale
Partnering Initiatives
Exploring Developing Addressing
novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges
Roadmap based research Open, light and agile
FET Open, an incubator for radically new
ideas for future technologies
New and visionary ideas with long-term impact on ICT … come from anywhere, from anybody and at anytime
… hard to find
… fragile and easy to shoot down
… hard to do and take time to incubate
… require an open and transdisciplinary research atmosphere
Needs a specific approach…
FET-Open in FP7
• FET-Open call, a long history of more than 20 years.
• Light, topic-agnostic and deadline-free scheme
• Continuously open 24/7
• 2-steps submission and evaluation
Step 1: 5 pages 'short' proposal, with double-blind evaluation of S&T
Step 2: 'full' proposal
• FET-Open Xtrack call, a pilot to become lighter and faster
FET-Open in FP7
How does operate the FET Open continuous call?
Batch 1 Batch 2 Batch 3 Batch … t
Short Proposal
Batch 1
cut-off date
Batch 2
cut-off date
Full Proposal
Go/no Go
FET-Open call overview
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
9.3 YR
9.2 SME
9.1
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
~3000 short proposals received, ~2 per day in the last years.
Timeline t=0
Short
Prop.
+ 3 months +5 months
Full
Prop.
+8 months +12 months
Contract
Go/ no
go
Go/
no go
Full proposal
Evaluation
~12 weeks
Short proposal
evaluation
~ 12 weeks
Full Proposal
preparation
~ min. of 8 weeks
Negotiation
~12 weeks
• 80% fails at short stage and get feedback within 3 months
• 40% of the 'full' proposals submitted are funded
FET Open in FP7 141 Funded projects
Body on a Chip
A closed-loop neural prosthesis for dizziness suppression
Linking biological and artificial neuronal assemblies to restore
lost brain functions: towards the design of innovative
bi-directional neuroprostheses
Optogenetic Neural stimulation platform
ICT challenges of mineral extraction under extreme geo-environmental conditions
Artificial Wet Neuronal Networks from Compartmentalised Excitable Chemical Media
Bacterial Computing with Engineered Populations
Innovative Robotic Artefacts Inspired by Plant Roots for Soil Monitoring
Evolutionary microfluidix
Enhance environmental awareness through social information technologies
A theoretical framework for swarms of GRN-controlled agents
which display adaptive tissue-like organisation
Hyper Interaction Viability Experiments
Social Interaction and Entrainment using Music PeRformance Experimentation
Curved Artificial Compound Eyes Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition
Electronic Chemical Cell
FET-Open Xtrack- What is it?
• Keep the best of FET-Open but…
• Get lighter • “light end to end process” for proposers
• Get faster • Reduce time from idea to contract
• Get more robust • Combine internal scalability with high quality review
FET-Open Xtrack
t=0
Proposal
10 pages
+ 3 months +5 months +7 months +12 months
Contract S&T
Impl.
and
Impact
Implementation
and Impact
~8 weeks
S&T evaluation
~ 12 weeks
Negotiation
~8 weeks
• 10 Pages proposals
• One step submission, two stage evaluation
• 320 proposals received(currently in evaluation)
• 80% expected to fails at S&T stage
FET Open
+ Popular FET-hallmark scheme
+ Numerous scientific and technological
success stories
+ A source of new directions
and early signals for FET pro-active
+ Attracts new disciplines
and actors, including many
young ones and SMEs
+ Largely academic, with some
high-tech industry and SME
+ Highly competitive
2012 Foresight Institute
Feynman Prizes for
Nanotechnology
Experiment and Theory
Thanks for your attention!
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet_en.html