Future and Emerging Technologies
Proactive
Initiatives in FP7 WP 2009-2010
FET - Proactive
jose.fernandez-villacanas@ec.europa.eu
What is FET proactive?
Bringing new
science into
technology!
Biology &
Life-sciences
Components
Systems
Materials
Sciences
Core ICTs
Communication,
Physics, IT, Interfaces
Miniaturisation!
Chemistry
Cognitive
sciences
Co-evolution of societal
and technological
change
Social
Sciences
Intelligence
Bio-inspiration!
Managing Complexity!
FET Proactive – WP 2009-2010
Call 4
8.2 Quantum Information Foundations & Techn. (15M€, IP)
8.3 Bio-Chemistry based Information Techn. (7M€, Strep)
Call 5
8.4 Human-Computer Confluence (15M€, IP)
8.5 Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (15M€, IP/Strep)
8.6 Towards Zero-Power ICT (7M€, Strep)
Call 6
8.7 Molecular Scale Devices and Systems (15M€, IP/Strep)
8.8 Brain Inspired ICT (15M€, IP/Strep)
8.9 Coordinating Communities, Plans &
Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives
CSA
1,5M€
0,5M€
8.10 Identifying new research topics,
Assessing emerging global S&T trends
for future FET Proactive Initiatives
8.1 Concurrent Tera-Device Computing (15M€, IP/Strep)
CSA
8.9 Coordinating Communities, Plans &
Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives
transformative and foundational research
8.10 Identifying new research topics,
Assessing emerging global S&T trends
for future FET Proactive Initiatives
Coordinating Communities, Plans and
Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives
What is expected?
ICT-2009.8.9
– Supporting targeted research communities
• Increase visibility and collective impact of scientific community,
industry & public
• Consolidation of research agendas
• Foster coordination of national, regional and international programmes
and activities
• Encouraging establishment of new educational curricula
– Actions specifically aiming at networking of research activities at
national or regional level
• Should involve national or regional research programme owners
• Coordination of national, regional or international programmes and
activities
• Preparation and implementation of joint trans-national calls
• ERA-NET plus action in subsequent phase
Research communities can be linked to existing initiatives
(based around running projects), or communities that are
new to FET.
Coordinating Communities, Plans and
Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives
ICT-2009.8.9
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Coordination action:
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Specific support action:
– Typical: funding around 500K€, 3-6 partners, duration 3 years
– At least 3 partners
– A large representation of scientific groups is often better achieved
through a scientific board.
– Typical: funding around 100K€, 1-2 years
– can be only 1 partner
support of
cooperation
events
community
building
linking to
national
and regional
programmes
research research
agenda roadmap
international
cooperation
Promotion of activities
And results in media
identifying drivers
of future research
criteria to
assess
research
results
Identifying new research topics, Assessing
emerging global S&T trends in ICT for future FET
Proactive initiatives
ICT-2009.8.10
What is expected?
Efforts towards definition of future FET Initiatives, either:
• Identifying new research topics
– Position paper with need for action, research challenges and
impact foreseen in science, technology and society.
should not be at project level but at proactive initiative level!
or:
• Assessing emerging global S&T trends in ICT
– That could lead to the definition of research topics, to overcome
roadblocks and set the future picture
– assess the potential of recent breakthroughs in FET related
research
Projects should provide first inputs by Spring 2010!
‘Identifying new research topics, Assessing
emerging global S&T trends in ICT for future FET
Proactive initiatives
ICT-2009.8.10
Coordination Actions
Involvement of different groups (3-5)
Specific Support Actions
Could be just one group
6-12 months duration
Call Budget of 500 K Euro
to be split into
New research topics
100 K Euro per proposal*
Trend assessment
200 K Euro per proposal*
(*rough expected EU contribution per proposal)
In both cases a clearly motivated idea
and assessment of the impact are expected
Contact points for 8.9 and 8.10
• 8.9 Contact:
wide.hogenhout@ec.europa.eu
• 8.10 Contact:
jose.fernandez-villacanas@ec.europa.eu
Concurrent Tera-Device Computing
ICT-2009.8.1, a FET proactive challenge in FP7 Call 4
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs, IPs (>50%)
• Contact: jean-marie.auger@ec.europa.eu
wide.hogenhout@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- FET workshop ‘Massive ICT Systems’
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fetproactive/massict-01_en.pdf…/massict-02_en.pdf
Concurrent Tera-Device Computing
rationale and objectives
• Rationale
Integrated circuits and tightly-coupled systems will
integrate up to 1000 billion devices by the year 2020.
This will lead to better performances if architectures
and software can deal with:
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Higher concurrency
Heterogeneous architectures for specific applications
Variability and failure of components
Efficient power consumption
• Objectives
Radically new methods and tools for architecture, design
and programming of chips and systems beyond 2020
Concurrent Tera-Device Computing
research topics
1. Radically new concepts, design paradigms, methods and
proof of concepts addressing design, compilation and
run-time complexity of many-core (100+)
heterogeneous systems
2. Methodologies and approaches to the design of
dependable systems coping with critical levels of
components, failures and variability, both software
and hardware.
3. Radically new design and programming paradigms
for effective programming (scalability, portability,
dependability) of many-cores tera-scale systems.
IPs to tackle at least 2, STREPS at least 1
Concurrent Tera-Device Computing
Expected impact
The initiative should prepare the future (beyond 2020)
challenges for industry by
1. supporting the design, programming and management of
concurrent computing systems
2. extending European industry’s strength to future
application domains
3. facilitating scalability and portability of applications
Quantum Information Foundations & Technologies
(QI-FT)
ICT-2009.8.2, a FET proactive challenge in FP7 Call 4
Courtesy of EQUIND
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes:
IPs only (at least 2 RT)
• Contact:
werner.steinhoegl@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fetproactive/qipcqt-01_en.pdf
Quantum Information Foundations & Technologies
rationale and objectives
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Rationale
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Technologies exploiting the quantum nature of
information offer novel modes of computing and
communicating.
They have strong potential to circumvent some of
the bottlenecks associated with the extrapolation of
present-day information processing and technologies.
General objective
Advance the state-of-the-art of QI-Technologies and
contribute to the transition of the field from upstream
research to application-oriented research.
QI-FT: Quantum Information Foundations & Technologies
Target Outcomes:
1. Scalability of
Quantum Processing Systems
FP6 QIPC
2. Long-Distance
Quantum Communications &
Interconversion of qubits
3. Quantum Information Theory,
Algorithms and Paradigms
New!
4. Entanglement Enabled
Quantum Technologies
Atomic
Scale
Techn.
Quantum Information Foundations & Technologies
Expected Impact
The research should
Courtesy of MICROTRAP
• enable the scalability of QI-Technologies in the presence of
environmental decoherence and facilitate their real-world
deployment
• develop reliable technologies for the different components
of quantum architectures
• identify new opportunities fostered through the transfer of
entanglement technologies from laboratories to industries
Bio-chemistry-based Information Technology
ICT-2009.8.3, Call 4
• Budget: 7 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs only
• Contact: wesley.van-dessel@ec.europa.eu
jose.fernandez-villacanas@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- FET workshop ‘Designing Alternative BIO-inspired ICTS’
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/livtecbioict-01_en.pdf
Bio-chemistry-based Information Technology
rationale and objectives
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Rationale
Biological cells are highly sophisticated, chemical
information processing systems, capable of responding
to changing conditions. The information processing
capabilities of such systems could be exploited by future
information technologies if this ‘information chemistry’
could be ‘programmed’.
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General objective
Develop the foundations for a radically new kind of
information processing technology inspired by chemical
processes in living systems.
Bio-chemistry-based Information Technology
research topics
exploit information handling capabilities of bio-inspired
chemical systems by developing appropriate
mechanisms to direct, control and analyse their
processes
• exploit their ability to adapt/evolve/flexibly reconfigure
by merging information handling processes and
processes that create or reconfigure the physical
system (function and shape)
Requirements
• experimentally (physically) demonstrate major steps
towards realizing advanced information processing
systems
• be developed alongside a clear vision on the potential
implementation and impact on ‘information processing’
•
Bio-chemistry-based Information Technology
Expected Impact
The research should
• Enable the development of ICT systems and devices that
utilize interactions between components to assemble
complex functional information processing materials.
• Enable a new generation of systems capable of interfacing
with conventional IT systems that are self-replicating, selfrepairing and/or capable of rapid adaptation/evolution as
well as flexible reconfiguration in response to changing
conditions.
Objective 8.4: Human Computer Confluence
ICT-2009.8.4, Call 5
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes: IPs only
• (2 RT at least)
• Contact:
Julian.Ellis@ec.europa.eu
Pekka.Karp@ec.europa.eu
• Background documents
- FET workshop ‘Human Computer Confluence’, Jan. 08
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/hcco-02_en.pdf
- ‘Shaping future FET Proactive initiatives’, Sep. 07
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/shapefetip-sept0701_en.pdf
Objective 8.4: Human Computer Confluence
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HCC researches new modalities for perception, action
and experience in augmented virtual spaces, delivering
unified experiences involving radically new forms of
perception/action.
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proposals should address 2 topics from:
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Perception and interaction with massive amounts of data
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Seamless merging of real and virtual worlds
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New forms of perception and action
Objective 8.4: Human Computer Confluence
•
Expected impact
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Better understanding of how sensory information is
delivered to, and interpreted by, the brain
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New methods and tools to merge real and virtual
spaces
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New ways for people to understand massive amounts of
data
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems
ICT-2009.8.5, Call 5
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs (RT 1. or 2.), IPs (RT 1. and 2., >50%)
• Contact: wide.hogenhout@ec.europa.eu
martin.ruediger@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- FET workshop ‘Overlay Computing & Communication’, Jan. 08
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/overlcc-01_en.pdf
- ‘Shaping future FET Proactive initiatives’, Sep. 07
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/shapefetip-sept0701_en.pdf
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems
rationale and objectives
General objective
create autonomic computing and communication
systems that are able to optimise overall performance
and resource usage in response to changing conditions,
adapting to both context (such as user behaviour) and
internal changes (such as topology).
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nodes need to build up an awareness relating to higher
and even global levels.
reconsider the tradition of fixing abstraction layers at
design time
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems
research topics
New concepts, architectures, foundations and
technologies for:
1. Creating awareness at the level of autonomic nodes, by
allowing them to interactively and selectively collect
information about the system, and use it effectively.
2. Dynamic self-expression, namely the ability to
autonomically use awareness to adapt the trade-off
between abstraction and optimisation.
Requirements
• usability in larger context
• demonstrator
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems
Expected Impact
The research should
• Lower management costs of large networked systems
through the ability to adapt to changing environments and
patterns of use, and through a greater degree of, flexibility
and reliability
• More efficient use of resources such as processing power,
energy and bandwidth through autonomic decisions based
on awareness
Towards Zero-Power ICT
ICT-2009.8.6, a FET proactive challenge in FP7 Call 5
• Budget: 7 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs only
• Contact: ralf.stuebner@ec.europa.eu
david.guedj@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- FET workshop ‘Molecular-Scale Information Systems’
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fetproactive/molecsc-ict-01_en.pdf
Towards Zero-Power ICT
rationale and objectives
Rationale
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In Nanoelectronics and ICT, it is particularly important to
encourage nano-microscopic mechanisms of energy
harvesting and more efficient power generation, as well as
work on complete functional nanosystems, e.g. for biosensing.
The topic has strong interdisciplinary aspects, as energy
harvesting principles are based on physics, chemistry and
biology. It is also relevant from a societal point of view as it
reduces conventional power consumption and permits new
applications in e.g. health care.
General objective
Explore new disruptive directions for energy-harvesting
technologies at the nanometre and molecular scale, and their
integration with low-power ICT into autonomous nano-scale
devices for sensing, processing, actuating and communication.
Towards Zero-Power ICT
research topics
1. Foundations of Energy Harvesting at the nano-scale:
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Demonstration of radically new strategies for energy harvesting
and local storage below the micrometer scale. Exploration and
harnessing of potential energy sources at that scale, including
kinetic energy present in the form of random fluctuations, ambient
electromagnetic radiation, chemical energy and others. Research
may also address bio-mimicked energy collection and storage
systems.
2. Self-powered autonomous nano-scale electronic devices:
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Autonomous nano-scale electronic devices that harvest energy
from the environment, possibly combining multiple sources, and
store it locally. These systems would co-ordinate low-power
sensing, processing, actuation, communication and energy
provision into autonomous wireless nanosystems.
Towards Zero-Power ICT
Expected Impact
The research should
• Explore the possibility of building autonomous nano-scale
devices (from sensors to actuators), extending the
miniaturisation of autonomous devices beyond the level of
the ‘smart dust’.
• Target new applications in a vast number of ICT fields such
as intelligent distributed sensing for health, safety-critical
systems or environment monitoring.
Molecular-Scale Devices and Systems
ICT-2009.8.7, a FET proactive challenge in FP7 Call 6
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs, IPs (at least 2 RT, >50%)
• Contact: david.guedj@ec.europa.eu
werner.steinhoegl@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- FET workshop ‘Molecular-Scale Information Systems’
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/molecscict-01_en.pdf
Molecular-Scale Devices and Systems
rationale and objectives
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Rationale
Modern technology is racing forward with techniques for
building systems on atomic and molecular scales. In the
near future, devices will be assembled on an atom-byatom basis, and provide means for controlling their
dynamics and interactions with unprecedented precision.
We can expect, as a result, a vast new range of ICT
technologies.
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General objective
Develop the foundations for radically new kinds of ICT
devices and systems based on atomic & molecular
precision, control and intrinsic properties.
Molecular-Scale Devices and Systems
research topics
1. aim at developing physical implementations at the
single-molecule level and with small assemblies of
molecules for computation, sensing and storage to achieve
proofs of concept and demonstrate working, scalable,
functional devices and systems.
2. explore and develop supporting technologies for
molecular-scale information devices and systems such as :
- measurement and control systems
- simulation and modelling tools
3. Explore and demonstrate radically new characteristics and
functionality of molecular-scale systems by investigating
new non-charge based information techniques
supported by experimental implementations
Molecular-Scale Devices and Systems
Expected Impact
The research should
• Open new avenues and explore new possibilities in ICT
devices and technologies at the molecular scale.
• Reach experimental demonstration of principle and
feasibility of such devices.
• Offer new perspectives on potential applications with
concrete advantages (e.g. energy consumption, data and
operation integrity, speed,...)
Brain Inspired ICT
ICT-2009.8.8, Call 6
• Budget: 15 M€
• Funding schemes:
STREPs (RT 1. or 2.), IPs (RT 1. and 2., >50%)
• Contact: pekka.karp@ec.europa.eu
julian.ellis@ec.europa.eu
• Background document
- ‘Neuro-Information Science’ workshop, Jan. 08
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/nis-01_en.pdf
- nEUro-IT.net roadmap, 2006
http://www.neuro-it.net/pdf_dateien/Roadmapv2.0.pdf
Brain Inspired ICT
rationale and objectives
Rationale
The way the brain works present many advantages over
current ICT systems:
• Vastly more adaptable
• Much lower power
• Fault tolerant
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…
General objective
to exploit advances in ICT and neuroscience in order:
1.
2.
to better understand how the brain processes information
and/or how it communicates with the peripheral nervous
system,
to explore potential applications including healthcare
Brain Inspired ICT
research topics
1. Development of multi-scale models of information
processing and communication in the brain and/or
PNS.
• combining recordings/imaging of brain activity on
several spatial and/or temporal scales
simultaneously.
• should foster joint progress and synergy in ICT and
the bio- and neuro-sciences.
2. Hardware Implementations of Neural Circuits that
mimic information processing in the brain or PNS.
• implementations should demonstrate either the
emulation of significant functionality of a neural
system or performance of specified processing
tasks.
Brain Inspired ICT
Expected Impact
The research should
• Improved design principles for bio-hybrid artefacts involving
engineered components that directly communicate with the
nervous system.
• Computational systems that emulate human skills or exploit
underlying principles for new forms of general purpose
computing.
• Improved diagnosis/treatment of neurological disorders
• Experimental data archived with sufficient appropriate
meta-data to facilitate re-use in another research contexts.
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