Litsa Kountouridou

National Contact Point for ICT and FETEmail: lkountouridou@research.org.cy

Tel: 22 205020

Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

− Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

−ICT−Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing

−Biotechnology

−Space

− Access to risk finance

Shared objectives and principles

Europe 2020 priorities

Tackling Societal Challenges

− Health, demographic change and wellbeing

− Food security, sustainable agriculture and

the bio-based economy

− Secure, clean and efficient energy

− Smart, green and integrated transport

− Climate action, resource efficiency and raw

materials

− Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

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− 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

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemesSimplified access Dissemination & knowledge tranfer

societies

− Secure Societies

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H2020 ‘novelty’: Two-year Work Programmes

ICT in H2020� The LEIT-ICT Work Programme for 2014-2015

addresses:

1. The EU’s need to maintain a strong expertise in key1. The EU’s need to maintain a strong expertise in keytechnology value chains

1. The necessity to move quicker from researchexcellence to the market

LEIT-ICT WP

2014-2015

Components and Systems

Advanced Computing

Micro- & Nano-electronic

Technologies

Photonics

Cross cutting topics

International Cooperation

2015

Future Internet

Content Technologies &

Information Management

Robotics

topics Cooperation

SME Instrument

Support to Innovation

Funding Instruments in LEIT-ICT� Research and Innovation Actions

• Primarily activities aiming to establish new knowledgeand/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improvedtechnology, product, process, service or solution.

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technology, product, process, service or solution.

• They may include basic and applied research,technology development and integration, testing andvalidation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory orsimulated environment.

Funding Instruments in LEIT-ICT� Innovation Actions

• Mainly activities directly aiming at producing plans andarrangements or designs for new, altered or improvedproducts, processes or services.

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products, processes or services.

• They may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating,piloting, large-scale product validation and marketreplication.

Funding Instruments in LEIT-ICT� Coordination and Support Actions

• Actions consisting primarily of accompanying measuressuch as standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising and communication, networking, coordination or

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raising and communication, networking, coordination orsupport services, policy dialogues and mutual learningexercises and studies, including design studies for newinfrastructure and may also include complementaryactivities of networking and coordination betweenprogrammes in different countries.

Open Calls for Proposals• H2020-ICT-2014 (ICT Call 1)

• Publication date: 11 December 2013• Deadline: 23 April 2014 (all topics except 5G

Future Internet)Future Internet)• Deadline for 5G Future Internet: 25 November

2014

• H2020-EUJ-2014 (EU-Japan Call)• Publication date: 7 January 2014• Deadline: 10 April 2014

Forthcoming Calls for Proposals• H2020-ICT-2015 (ICT Call 2)

• Publication date: 15 October 2014• Deadline: 14 April 2015

• H2020-EUB-2015 (EU-Brazil Call)• Publication date: 15 October 2014• Deadline: 21 April 2015

H2020-ICT-2014

(ICT Call 1)(ICT Call 1)

Components and systems • Engineering of advanced embedded and resource efficient

components and systems

• Organised in three related topics:

• Smart cyber-physical systems (56 M€)Next generation embedded and connected systems

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• Next generation embedded and connected systems• Application sectors: energy, transport, medical, but

also food, chemistry and others.

• Smart system integration (48 M€)• Integration of heterogeneous micro- and

nanotechnologies into smart systems• Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (38 M€)

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Future Internet• Focused on network and computing infrastructures to accelerate innovation

and address the most critical technical and use aspects of the Internet

• Nine topics to be funded under the current Call:

• Smart networks and novel Internet architectures (24 M€)• Smart optical and wireless network technologies (30M€)• Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for the Future Internet (125 M€)���� 5G PPP (deadline: 25.11.2014)

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���� 5G PPP (deadline: 25.11.2014)

• Advanced cloud infrastructures and services (73 M€)• Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through cloud computing

services (22 M€)

• Tools and methods for Software Development (25 M€)

• FIRE+ (Future Internet Research & Experimentation) (31,5M€)• More Experimentation for the Future Internet (18 M€)

• Collective Awareness Platforms for sustainability and social innovation (37 M€)

• Web Entrepreneurship (10 M€)

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Content technologies and information

management• Addresses:

- Big Data with focus on both innovative data products and services and solvingresearch problems

- Machine translation in order to overcome barriers to multilingual onlinecommunication

- Tools for creative, media and learning industries in order to mobilise the- Tools for creative, media and learning industries in order to mobilise theinnovation potential of SMEs active in the area

- Multimodal and natural computer interaction

• Five topics included in the current Call:

• Big data and Open Data innovation and take-up (50 M€)• Cracking the language barrier (15 M€)• Support to the growth of ICT innovative creative industries SMEs (15 M€)• Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies (17 M€)• Multimodal and natural computer interaction (31 M€)

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Robotics

�Robotics PPP

Roadmap-based research driven by application needs identified in theStrategic Research Agenda (SRA) established by the euRobotics AISBL (theprivate partner in (Consumer Robots, Civil Robots, Commercial Robots,Transportation Robots, Military Robots)Transportation Robots, Military Robots)

• Effort to close the innovation gap to allow large scale deployment of robotsand foster market take-up: use-cases, pre-commercial procurement,industry-academia cross-fertilisation RIA IA

Micro- and nano-electronics and photonics

Key Enabling Technologies

• Covers generic technology developments on micro- and nano-electronics focused on advanced research and lower Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) (50 M€)

• Addresses the full innovation and value chain in markets sectors where the • Addresses the full innovation and value chain in markets sectors where the European photonics industry is particularly strong (optical communications, lighting, medical photonics, laser technologies, etc.) (156 M€)

Two topics: • Photonics KET

����Photonics PPP• Development of novel materials and systems for OLED lighting

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ICT Cross-Cutting Activities• Human-centric Digital Age (7 M€)

• Understanding technologies, networks and new digital and social media and how these are changing the way people behave, think, interact and socialise as persons,

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interact and socialise as persons, citizens, workers and consumers

• Cyber-security, Trustworthy ICT (38 M€)

• Focuses on security-by-design for end to end security and a specific activity on cryptography

• Complementary to Cyber-security in Societal Challenge 7

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International cooperation actions

• Coordinated call

• EU-Japan (6 M€)• Technologies combining big data, internet of

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things in the cloud• Optical communications• Access networks for densely located users• Experimentation and development on federated

Japan-EU testbeds

(deadline 10.4.2014)

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Finding PartnersIdeal-ist 2014 Partner Search Tool

Step 1Register and insert

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Partner Search (PS)PS is checked by local representative & a Quality team

Step 3 PS is published & distributed to NCP’ newsletters subscribers

Step 4Expressions of interestare sent & choice of partners is done

Useful Links� Idealist 2014 website

www.ideal-ist.eu

� ICT in H2020 Guide

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/horhttp://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/horizon2020/files/ICT%20in%20H2020%20WP2014-15_0.pdf

� Digital Agenda for Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

FET in Horizon 2020Excellent Science pillar in H2020

• European Research Council

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

• Future and Emerging Technologies

• Research infrastructures programme

FET in Horizon 2020: Mission

� To uncover radically new technology areas

To grasp European leadership in research and innovation� To grasp European leadership in research and innovationon the most promising such future and emergingtechnologies early on.

FET – Three complementary funding schemes

FET-Open FET Proactive FET Flagships

Roadmap based researchOpen, light and agile

UncorrelatedResearch projects

FET-Open

Early Ideas

Topical clusters of research projects

FET Proactive

Exploration andIncubation

Common researchagendas

FET Flagships

Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives

Exploring Developing Addressing

novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

FET Open in FP7: a portfolio snapshot

A closed-loop neural prosthesis for dizziness suppression

Optogenetic Neural stimulation platform

Bacterial Computing with Engineered Populations

Innovative Robotic Artefacts Inspired by Plant Roots for Soil Monitoring

Enhance environmental awareness through social information technologies

Curved Artificial Compound Eyes

Body on a Chip

Restoring lost brain functions: towards the design of innovative

bi-directional neuroprostheses

Optogenetic Neural stimulation platform

Hyper Interaction Viability Experiments

Data Science for Simulating the Era of Electric Vehicles

Curved Artificial Compound Eyes

Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition

Useful Links (1/2)� FET Open FP7 Projects Portfolio

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-open/portfolio-2007-12-strep_en.html

� FET Flagships� FET Flagships

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

http://graphene-flagship.eu/

� FET in H2020

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies

Useful Links (2/2)� www.research.org.cy

� http://horizon2020cyprus.blogspot.com/

� www.facebook.com/horizon2020cyprus

For more information and feedback...� Infoday and Feedback Sessions on the First Calls for

ICT and FET

4 February 2014, 09:15 – 13:15

CYTA AmphitheatreCYTA Amphitheatre

Main Speaker: Mr. Tom Clausen (Programme Manager, DG CONNECT)

Thank you...!!!