Upcoming ICT opportunities in WP2020

John Magan, DG CNECT

H2020 Brokerage Event on ICT, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Dublin

4 July 2019

Presentation structure

• Overview of ICT in H2020

• WP 2020 topics review

• Lessons learned – tips for proposers

Excellent Science

Frontier Research (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)

Research Infrastructures

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

Secure societies

Industrial Leadership

Leadership in enabling

and industrial technologies

ICT

Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing

Biotechnology

Space

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

ICT ICT

ICT

ICT

ICT

ICT

ICT

ICT

ICTICT

ICT in H2020 > LEIT-ICT

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ICT

ICT in Industrial leadership

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

Approach to WP2018-20

• Focus and align with high-level political priorities

• Digitising and transforming European industry and Services (including AI)

• European Data Infrastructures (HPC, Big data and Cloud)

• 5G Action plan and Connected and Automated Mobility

• Next Generation Internet

• Cybersecurity

• Support core ICT industries through roadmap-based cPPPs

• Stronger synergies between cPPPs

• Integrate digital technologies across all parts of H2020

• Continued focus on innovation

Industrial Leadership - ICT

Call – Information and Communication technologies

• Artificial Intelligence and Technologies for Digitising European Industry and Economy

• European Data Infrastructures: HPC, Big data and Cloud technologies

• 5G

• Next Generation Internet (NGI)

• Cross-cutting activities

Call - Digitising and transforming European industry and services: digital innovation hubs and platforms

Call - Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence and Technologies for DigitisingEuropean Industry and Economy2020

• Cover wide range of ICT technologies including micro-electronics, cyberphysical systems, photonics and robotics. Systemic integration from smart integrated components to cyber-physical systems

• Complementary to the JU for Electronic Components and Systems (ECSEL JU)

• Organised in eight topics in 2020:

• ICT-46-2020: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support• ICT-47-2020: Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications• ICT-48-2020: Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres• ICT-49-2020: Artificial Intelligence on demand platform• ICT-38-2020: Artificial intelligence for manufacturing• ICT-36-2020: Disruptive photonics technologies• ICT-37-2020: Advancing photonics technologies and application driven photonics

components and the innovation ecosystem• ICT-50-2020: Software Technologies

349,5M€

ICT-36-2020 Disruptive photonics technologies [budget 47.5 M€] Research & Innovation Actions i. 3D light field and holographic displaysii. Packaging and module integration for photonic integrated circuits

(PIC)iii.Light to Fueliv.Next generation biophotonics methods and devices as research

tools to understand the cellular origin of diseases

ICT-37-2020 Advancing photonics technologies and application driven photonics components and the innovation ecosystem [49 M€]Research & Innovation Actions [30 M€]i. Flexible Farm-to-Fork Sensingii. Novel Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) Technology building blocksInnovation Actions [15 M€]iii. Smart Photonic for Environmental Pollution Detection SensingCoordination and Support [4 M€]iv. An industrial strategy for photonics in Europe

AI for ManufacturingICT-38-2020

Specific Challenge

• Exploit AI potential for the sake of manufacturing

needs

• Integrate AI with manufacturing

technologies/systems

• Standardisation and international collaboration

to support deployment

European Data Infrastructures2020

• Enable the creation of a world-class HPC/Big Data ecosystem

• Complementary to the work in the Excellent Science pillar under Research Infrastructures, FET and EuroHPC (on High Performance Computing)

• Develop competitive cloud solutions based on advanced platforms and services and cloud-based software and data application

• Organised in two topics in 2020:

• ICT-51-2020: Big Data technologies and extreme-scale analytics

• ICT-40-2020: Cloud Computing: towards a smart cloud computing continuum

51,5M€

ICT-51 (RIA): The challenge

Rapidly increasing volumes of diverse data from distributed sources create

challenges for extracting valuable knowledge and commercial value from

data but at the same time have huge potential towards more accurate

predictions, better analytics and responsible AI.

This calls for novel methods, approaches and engineering paradigms in

machine learning, analytics and data management.

Not a new topic, but continuation of the ICT-12 topic of the ICT-2018-2020

Work Programme of H2020.

The state-of-the-art evolves constantly!

5G 2020

• 5G cPPP targets validation of technologies and architectures in a system context and for multiple use cases

• 5G applied for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM)

• 5G cPPP looking for Smart Connectivity beyond 5G

• Organised in four topics in 2020:

• ICT-52-2020: 5G PPP – Smart Connectivity beyond 5G• ICT-41-2020: 5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third

party services• ICT-42-2020: 5G PPP – 5G core technologies innovation• ICT-53-2020: 5G PPP – 5G for Connected and Automated

Mobility (CAM)

183 M€

ICT-52-2020 Smart Connectivity Beyond 5GScope

• Infinite network capacity, innovative spectrum use and management, usability of new bands and radio technologies and architectures including optical capabilities

• Imperceptible latencies through flexible connect-compute technologies

• smart connectivity of massive amounts of things and systems, impact of Mobile edge computing and energy efficiency

• novel architectures protocols and technologies (e.g. AI) for adaptive networks

• personalised, multi-tenant and perpetual protection based on security, privacy and trust mechanisms with innovative technologies (e.g. DLT)

Proposals may address one or several of above topics.

ICT-41-2020 - 5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third party services - Scope

• Experimentation facilities able to provide enhanced experimentation infrastructures on top of which third party experimenters (e.g. SMEs) will have the opportunity to test their applications tailored to specific vertical use cases.

• To create 5G open source repositories for wide use and towards standards development

• Typical vertical use cases: automated mobility, smart factories and industry 4.0

ICT-42-2020: 5G PPP – 5G core technologies innovationInnovation Actions - Scope

• Enabling technologies - hardware-based 5G technological blocks

• Include, but not limited to, phase array antenna, array processors, millimetrewave devices and subsystems, photonics based devices, baseband processor platforms, low-cost access points, new generation of 5G terminals (e.g. for Connected and Automated Mobility)

• Pilot validation providing opportunities for innovative high-tech SMEs

• Emphasis on new types of IoT devices with 5G connectivity functionalities addressing requirements of one or several vertical industry sectors

• Beyond individual components - validation of their integration into an architecture representing a subset of 5G network functions

ICT-53-2020: 5G PPP – 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) - scope• Validation of the latest available 5G specification in the context of innovative

CAM applications under realistic conditions and seamlessly functioning across borders covering significant portions of roads or railways.

• Broad innovation perspective covering use cases in the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), and vehicle-to-network (V2N) domains including the supporting service infrastructure.

• Core technological innovation expected from 5G, such as radio, RAN and core network. Innovations in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable advanced CAM use cases are also included.

Next Generation Internet (NGI)2020

• Next generation technologies for the internet in 10-15 years based on European values such as openness, neutrality, cooperation, inclusion, transparency and protection of data and privacy.

• Organised in five topics:

• ICT-54-2020: Blockchain for the Next Generation Internet• ICT-55-2020: Interactive Technologies• ICT-56-2020: Next Generation Internet of Things• ICT-57-2020: An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet• ICT-44-2020: Next Generation Media

110 M€

ICT-54-2020: Blockchain for the Next

Generation Internet

i. Advancing research on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger

Technologies

ii. Fostering trust in internet information exchange and content with

blockchain

iii. Bringing forward the emergence of collective intelligence on the

internet

Scope

Development of innovative solutions to support:1) Next Generation Media integrating the emerging technologies such as 5G, Cloud,

the Internet of Things, Virtual/Augmented Reality, smart objects, wearables, data

analytics, artificial intelligence, etc. to overcome traditional boundaries and sectors.

2) New adaptive and inclusive media ecosystem and new content, e.g. new online

strategies and business models or new forms of content

creation/distribution/presentation.

3) Synergies across media, operators, technologists and cultural/artistic actors, in order

to develop a network of stakeholders which, building on the existing STARTS

(Science + Technology + ARTS) network, will explore innovative paths for the next

generation of media.

ICT-44-2020: Next Generation Media

020

Cross-cutting and international Cooperation activities2020

• Cross-cutting activities

• ICT-45-2020: Reinforcing European presence in international ICT standardisation: Standardisation Observatory and

Support Facility

• International Cooperation

• ICT-58-2020: International partnership building between European and African innovation hubs

15 M€

Call - Digitising and transforming European industry and services: digital innovation hubs and platforms

2020

• Focus area implemented mainly through:

• Digital innovation hubs• Cross-sectorial and integrated digital platforms

• Organised in five topics in 2019:

• DT-ICT-03-2020: I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers• DT-ICT-04-2020: Photonics Innovation Hubs• DT-ICT-05-2020: Big Data Innovation Hubs• DT-ICT-09-2020: Boost rural economies through cross-sector digital service

platforms• DT-ICT-12-2020: AI for the smart hospital of the future

190,5 M€

Digital Innovation Hubs

Digital Innovation Hubs support companies – in particular SMEs –and public organisations in their digital transformation

▪ Consortia should be deeply rooted in regional/national innovation

ecosystems

▪ Critical mass of highly innovative, cross border experiments. At least 50% of

the budget should directly benefit SMEs or slightly bigger companies.

Financial Support to Third Parties may be used.

▪ Activities should aim at long-term sustainability and include a business plan

for the DIHs, a plan to attract investors, to address training and skills

development needs and dissemination. Established networks reaching out to

SMEs like the Enterprise Europe Network and the NCP network should be

used.

▪ Selected projects are expected to collaborate on building a network of Digital

Innovation Hubs, covering most regions in Europe.

Digital Innovation Hubs

Call Cybersecurity2020

• Focus area

• Combining contributions from LEIT-ICT, SC1 and SC7

• Grouping the main R&D&I activities in Cybersecurity, from enabling technologies to specific use cases

• Organised in one topic in 2020:

• SU-ICT-02-2020: Building blocks for resilience in evolving ICT systems

47 M€

LEIT ICT topic publication dates and deadlines - 1

Artificial Intelligence and Technologies for Digitising European Industry and economy

ICT-46-202019/11/19-

22/04/20Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support

ICT-47-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics

applications

ICT-48-202009/07/19-

13/11/19

Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence

centres

ICT-49-202019/11/19-

22/04/20Artificial Intelligence on demand platform

ICT-38-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Artificial intelligence for manufacturing

ICT-36-202019/11/19-

22/04/20Disruptive photonics technologies

ICT-37-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

Advancing photonics technologies and application driven

photonics components and the innovation ecosystem

ICT-50-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Software Technologies

LEIT ICT topic publication dates and deadlines - 2European Data Infrastructure: Big Data and Cloud technologies

ICT-51-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Big Data technologies and extreme-scale analytics

ICT-40-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

Cloud Computing: towards a smart cloud computing

continuum

5G

ICT-52-202019/11/19-

22/04/205G PPP – Smart Connectivity beyond 5G

ICT-41-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third party

services

ICT-42-202009/07/19-

16/01/205G PPP – 5G core technologies innovation

ICT-53-202009/07/19-

13/11/19

5G PPP – 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility

(CAM)

Next Generation Internet (NGI)

ICT-54-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Blockchain for the Next Generation Internet

ICT-55-202009/07/19-

13/11/19Interactive Technologies

ICT-56-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Next Generation Internet of Things

ICT-57-202019/11/19-

22/04/20An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet

ICT-44-202009/07/19-

16/01/20Next Generation Media

LEIT ICT topic publication dates and deadlines - 3

Cross-cutting activities

ICT-45-202009/07/19-

13/11/19

Reinforcing European presence in international ICT

standardisation: Standardisation Observatory and

Support Facility

International cooperation activities

ICT-58-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

International partnership building between European and

African innovation hubs

Digitising and transforming European industry and services: digital innovation hubs and

platforms

DT-ICT-03-202009/07/19-

13/11/19I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers

DT-ICT-04-202019/11/19-

22/04/20Photonics Innovation Hubs

DT-ICT-05-202009/07/19-

13/11/19Big Data Innovation Hubs

DT-ICT-09-202019/11/19-

22/04/20

Boost rural economies through cross-sector digital

service platforms

DT-ICT-12-202019/11/19-

22/04/20AI for the smart hospital of the future

Brussels, 18 January 2019

Lessons learned; tips and

suggestions

DO NOT FORGET

– Respect the page limitations in your proposal – RIA/IA 70 pages – CSA 50 pages.

– Make sure you address and submit under the correct topic

– Read carefully the work programme/call texts including introduction text and address all the requirements

– Read carefully the proposal template and its instructions and guidance – and implement them properly, be aware of the evaluation criteria

– Check SME status, SME budget is potentially a ranking criterion (in case of ties)

– Re-submission: high risk of failure if not truly addressing the new call

– Get somebody who was not involved to read your proposal "it was so obvious to the proposers what they were planning that they forgot to mention it“

– Check the PDF conversion of your proposal

– Do not wait until the last minute (= last day) to submit

■ Addressing (… and assessing) IPR Issues ➢ Do not postpone IPR issues to the consortium agreement but outline in the proposal

your strategy for management of IPRs and their protection

For example:

– Check existing patents – state whether they can be a barrier to exploitation and how you intend to overcome it → Freedom to Operate

– Clearly outline the expected IPRs from your project (capable of commercial/industrial exploitation)

– Outline how you will handle / share background information and expected project results and how do you envisage to protect your results

IPR

Impact, Gender & Other

Impact• Provide the baseline, targets and metrics to measure the impact

Gender• Do not confuse "gender dimension" (i.e. integrating sex and gender analysis into the

content of the action) with "gender balance" of the research teams (especially in case of the biophotonic themes and CSA in ICT-05)

Other• Monitor your mailbox and react immediately if contacted• Monitor the call/topic website for updates and Q&As/FAQs

• Home: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/home

• Search for e.g. "ICT-03" or "ICT-05"

Venue:

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Website and registration:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/digital-excellence-forum-ict-proposers-day-2019

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