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Information Society Technologies in the 6th Framework Programme IST Call 6

Information Society Technologies in the 6th Framework Programme IST Call 6. SEE-INNOVATION PROJECT 2nd MENTORING WORKSHOP SOFIA 9th of February 2006. IST Call 6. IST Call 6 opened on 22nd December 2005 and closes on 25 th April 2006 at 17h00 (Brussels time)

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Information Society Technologies in the 6th Framework Programme IST Call 6

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  1. Information Society Technologiesin the 6th Framework ProgrammeIST Call 6 SEE-INNOVATION PROJECT 2nd MENTORING WORKSHOP SOFIA 9th of February 2006

  2. IST Call 6 • IST Call 6 opened on 22nd December 2005 and closes on 25th April 2006 at 17h00 (Brussels time) • Main evaluation mid- May, Hearings mid-June, ESRs end-June • It covers 5 Strategic objectives and is funded at 140 M€ in total • Each Strategic objective is open to only a limited range of “instruments” – IP, STREP, CA, SSA (no NoEs) • Submission using the Electronic Proposal Submission System

  3. IST Call 6 – Strategic objectives 2.6.1 Advanced robotics STP,CA, SSA – 37M€ 2.6.2 Ambient Assisted LivingIP – 20M€: STP, CA, SSA – 20M€ 2.6.3 Search engines for audio-visual contentIP - 12 M€: STP, CA – 18M€ 2.6.4 Accompanying actions supporting participationCA, SSA – 3M€ 2.6.5/1 Targeted research actions Int. Coop. on Digital TV: Latin America STP, CA, SSA – 5M€ Int. Coop. on Digital TV: China STP, CA, SSA – 5M€ Int. Coop. on Grid Technologies: China STP, CA, SSA – 5M€ Int. Coop. for eGovernment: W. Balkans STP, CA, SSA – 5M€ Early warning systems: Tsunami STP, CA, SSA – 5M€ 2.6.5/2 Coordination actions or Specific support actions: Strategic cooperation CA, SSA 5M€

  4. IST Call 6 - Eligibility 1. Instrument restriction must be respected 2. Minimum consortium IP, STREP, CA proposals • Two mutually-independent partners from EU or Candidate states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Turkey) • A third partner as above, or from an Associated state (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) • Further partners from any country Third-country partners are funded if on the INCO target list 3. Minimum Consortium SSA proposals • No restrictions; may even be one participant from any country ! A one-partner SSA would be eligible. But would it be credible ?

  5. IST Call 6 – Help • Commission contact person for each objective open in call link from call page http://www.cordis.lu/ist • A help desk for proposers´ questions ist@cec.eu.int tel +32 2 296 8596 • A help desk for electronic submission problems support@epss-fp6.org tel: +322233 3760 • Partner search facilities http://www.ideal-ist.net http://www.partners-service.cordis.lu/ • A network of National Contact Points http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ncps.htm

  6. 2.6.1 Advanced robotics - Objectives • Moving from specific industrial technology to a broad enabler of a wide range of products and services for the consumer, home & entertainment markets • Development of more intelligent, flexible, cost-effective, modular, safe, dependable, robust, user-driven robot systems • massive introduction of robots in everyday human environments and their close co-operation with people • extend the coupling of the world of information and communication with the world of physical interaction

  7. Advanced robotics - focus Multidisciplinary Research with focus on one or several of the themes: • Flexible robot systems • Safe, robust and dependable robot systems operating in human environments and co-operating with people • Networked and co-operating robots • Advanced integrated modular robotics STREPS Some starting points: State-of-the-art in multi-modal knowledge acquisition, in reasoning and decision-making, evolution and learning, miniaturisation Prepare the emergence of a multidisciplinary research community in Europe: • Develop longer term visions and roadmaps • Address organisational, legal, ethical and socio-economic challenges • Standardisation activities for modular Robotics • Benchmarking • International co-operation Support Actions

  8. Advanced robotics - information • INFO DAY IN BRUSSELS (Feb 2006) • Contacts: • Pekka Karp DG INFSO/F1 pekka.karp@cec.eu.int • Franco Mastroddi DG INFSO/E5 franco.mastroddi@cec.eu.int • Websites: • Advanced robotics on Cordis http://cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/so/advanced-robotics/home.html • Future and Emerging Technologies http://cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/fet/home.html • Cognition http://cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/cognition/index.html • European Robotics Platform EUROP http://www.roboticsplatform.com/ • European Robotics Network EURON http://www.euron.org/

  9. 2.6.2 ALL - ICT for an ageing society Assisted Independent Active • Support to Daily activities Increase independence and autonomy “at home” (Assistive technology, smart homes, warning systems, shopping facilities) • Participation in society and mobility • Communication, access to education, leisure,… • Integrated Care <-> Interoperability • Healthcare • Social care • Informal care

  10. 2.6.2 Proposal requirements • Total indicative budget 40 M€ • IPs: 50% • Expected 2 – 4 projects • STREPs, CAs, SSAs: 50% • Coverage of call issues • Respond to end-user needs • Significant end-user interaction & involvement in R&D process • Multidisciplinary projects teams • Involvement of relevant public authorities • Verification and testing of results • Lead to cost-effective user-friendly solutions • Holistic and Integrated solutions • Stimulate business innovation and involve major industrial partners, including SMEs • Clear Exploitation of outcomes

  11. 2.6.2 ALL - IPs and STREPs End-User centered solutions supporting collaboration and integration between different actors and services • Focus 1 • Integration of advanced ICTs into working prototypes for assisted Living (Examples: Context-aware smart products, systems and services for independent living) • Focus 2 • Development of AAL systems reference architectures allowing for seamless integration of devices, sub-systems and services (Examples: System interoperability and management, contribution to standards, service engineering, privacy protection.)

  12. 2.6.2. ALL - SSAs and CAs • Specific Support Actions • Legal & Regulatory, • Ethical • Psychological • Socio economic • Organisational • Financial • … • Coordination actions • bridging different constituencies • support to clustering • coordination between projects • international cooperation • …

  13. 2.6.3 Search Engines for Audio – Visual Content Objectives: • To provide advanced solutions for organising, searching and accessing large-scale, distributed digital audio-visual content and objects. • Support will be given to projects that significantly advance research capabilities and/or consolidate existing research work and identify future orientations in the field. • Proposed actions should have a federating effect on on-going work within relevant national initiatives for on-line access to digital content.

  14. 2.6.3. Search Engines for Audio – Visual Content Focus • Technologiesto support the process of representing and interpreting, navigating and retrieving audio-visual content and other types of digital objects. Particular aspects to be considered include heterogeneous data fusion, optimised system integration and where applicable P2P technologies. • Methods and tools aimed at higher levels of information harvesting, including automated knowledge discovery and extraction, annotation and summarisation, indexing and retrieval of all types of digital content (text, image, video, audio, 3D graphical objects etc.), including protected content. • Systems for adaptive search by content and/or context to be tested in realistic everyday life settings, based on relevance feedback – including socially-derived relevance. This should encompass the integration and testing of search from a variety of sources based on mixed-media queries and the delivery of different media types on a variety of devices (including mobile terminals).

  15. 2.6.3 System aspects • Emphasis should be placed on future user and service search requirements and on ubiquitous access, be it from a fixed or mobile networks, hiding complexity, as well as handling context and geographical awareness in multiple environments (e.g. local, corporate, open Internet). • Work should be placed in a systems context with a clear industrial exploitation drive. Solutions should be validated with targeted applications in critical sectors, using large scale heterogeneous and networked audio-visual information repositories.

  16. 2.6.3 Call Information • Instruments: • IPs, STREPs, CAs • Indicative budget: • 30 M€; IPs: 40%; STREPs, CAs: 60% • Minimum number of participants: • Three independent legal entities from three different MS or AS, with at least two MS or ACC. • EC Contact Persons: • Loretta Anania (loretta.anania@cec.eu.int) • Bernard Barani (bernard.barani@cec.eu.int) • Kai Tullius (kai.tullius@cec.eu.int)

  17. 2.6.4 Accompanying actions in support of participation in Community ICT Proposals requirements: • Indicative budget 3 M€ • Experienced support projects with critical mass • CAs, SSAs • The objective is to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation in current and future Community ICT research. • Bridge between the 6 and 7 FWP • Special focus on newcomers and SMEs, NMS, ACC. • Targeted also on INCO countries.

  18. Strategic Objective 2.6.5: International Cooperation General objectives: • To establish privileged partnerships with selected countries or regions; • To contribute to the stability and prosperity of regions neighboring the EU • To address global environmental issues • To prepare for future partnerships with the target regions ! Proposals shall leverage and integrate existing initiatives in the focal areas in Europe and the target countries

  19. Strategic Objective 2.6.5/1: Targeted research actions 2.6.5/1 International Cooperation on Digital TV Broadcasting & Interactive Applications • Target region: Latin America • Indicative budget: 5 M€ • STREPs, SSAs, CAs • Infoday Sao Paulo, 2nd February 2006–To be confirmed 2.6.5/1 International Cooperation on Digital Broadcasting / Mobile Convergence • Target country: China • Indicative budget: 5 M€€ • STREPs, SSAs, CAs • Infoday Beijing, 23 February 2006–To be confirmed http://cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/audiovisual

  20. International Cooperation on Digital TV Broadcasting & Interactive Applications • To establish privileged partnerships opening opportunities for the joint development of digital broadcasting technologiesand associated interactive applications and services • To support the emergence of added-value services, their faster development in the target region and their interoperability with EU developed solutions • To prepare for future, wider and more concrete partnerships in RTD; • Topics to address: • Open API and middleware issues • Interactive applications with strong focus on eLearning, eHealth & eGovernment • Considering live trials in order to validate the technical approaches • Contact person: • Demosthenes Ikonomou Demosthenes.Ikonomou@cec.eu.int • European Commission Fax : +32 2 296 21 78 • Brussels, Belgium

  21. International Cooperation on Digital Broadcasting / Mobile Convergence • To establish privileged partnerships opening opportunities for the joint development of digital broadcasting technologies and their convergence with mobile communications • To support the emergence of added-value converged technologies, their faster development in the target region and their interoperability with EU developed solutions • Topics to address: • Open API and middleware issues • Scalable video coding and lightweight representation and content aggregation technologies • Considering live trials in order to validate the technical approaches • Contact person: Jean-François Buggenhout Phone: +32 2 299 52 49 European Commission Fax : +32 2 296 21 78 Brussels, Belgium jean-francois.buggenhout@cec.eu.int

  22. 2.6.5/1 Grid Technologies – Target Country: China • Target country: China • Indicative budget: 5 M€€ • STREPs, SSAs, CAs • Infoday22nd February in Shanghai Objectives of the Call • to develop strategic partnerships building on common priority areas • to explore new collaboration opportunities for the take-up of Grid-enabled applications by end-users • promoting common developments of standards and building joint virtual laboratories involving research and industry

  23. Application Pull Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Promote global adoption of Grid environments and tools TechnologyPush WP 2005-2006International Cooperation on Grid TechnologiesRESEARCH FOCUS IST Call 6Indicative Budget 5M€ e-bus, e-health, e-goy, e-learning Environment, … Application Sector 1 Application Application Sector 3 Application Sector 2 Sector n International Cooperation on Grid Technologies Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for the Grid

  24. 2.6.5/1 Grid Technologies – Target Country: China • Complements the main Grid research activities in previous calls, now from an international co-operation perspective • Addresses both research developments and business / industrial applications • Proposals shall link existing initiatives in the EU and China • To establish a long-term co-operation framework with the target country • Contact person: Annalisa Bogliolo Grid Technologies Unit European Commission • annalisa.bogliolo@cec.eu.int • http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

  25. 2.6.5/1 International cooperation for eGovernment and eParticipation – Target countries: Western Balkans This call complements the on-going research in eGovernment and eDemocracy : http://europa.eu.int/egovernment_research Objective To address key issues across the region, such as: - improved public services,- institutional reinforcement,- decision making- democratic processes Public services of high impact may include:- eCustoms- eJustice - ePublic Procurement- eDemocracy - eParticipation Cooperation within the W. Balkan region as well as with the EU is supported

  26. 2.6.5/1 International cooperation for eGovernment and eParticipation – Target countries: Western Balkans Instruments: STREPs, SSAs, CAs Balanced partnerships among: W. Balkan and EU partners; ICT research organisations (industry, academia) and users (e.g. public administrations) Multidisciplinary research in STREPs: technological, organisational, institutional, legal, etc SSAs, CAs: well focused proposals with tangible results and benefits

  27. 2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical hazards • Target countries: Mediterranean partner countries, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri-Lanka, Japan, USA, Canada, New-Zealand. • The aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate advanced systems and services to manage geo-physical risks, with a focus on developing an early warning and alert capacity for improved disaster prevention and preparedness in coastal zones. The objective is to establish operational prototypes for tsunami detection, early warning and alert relevant to the main tsunami-prone regions in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean.

  28. 2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical hazards • Additional support measures include: • technology transfer between EU and tsunami-prone countries and regions bordering the Indian Ocean, for sharing best practice, promoting standards and adapting these to local needs and conditions; • Collaboration with specialised institutes in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea with the aim of promoting a harmonised approach to tsunami early warning and alert for the Mediterranean basin. Instruments: STREPs, SSAs and CAs Indicative budget 5 M€

  29. 2.6.5/1 Early warning systems for geo-physical hazards Web site: http://fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP6DetailsCallPage&call_id=271 Info Day: 31st January 2006, hosted by UNESCO-IOC, Paris Contact: Dr. Karen Fabbri (karen.fabbri@cec.eu.int) DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

  30. 2.6.5/2 INCO - CA or SSA • identifying partner countries, common needs and opportunities for deeper strategic R&D co-operation between EU and selected regionsthrough • dialogue with broad communities • awareness raising measures Indicative Budget: 5 M€

  31. 2.6.5/2 INCO - CA or SSA Each proposal expected to: • Contribute to the formulation of a global strategy for future initiatives • Focus on well-identified region • Cover all technologies relevant to co-operation • Include partners from region addressed • Yield results within 12-18 months • Be based on local needs and/or opportunities best addressed jointly Emphasis on emerging, developing, neighbourhood countries

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