Future & Emerging Technologies (FETs)

1. Future & Emerging Technologies (FETs) Kostas Glinos DG-INFSO F1

2. Fifth Framework Programme- Thematic & Horizontal Programmes - Quality of Life&Living Resources 2.650 Beuro Information Society Technologies 3.925 Beuro Competitive& SustainableGrowth 3.100 Beuro PreservingtheEcosystem 2.100 Beuro Human Potential 1.402 Beuro International Cooperation 491 Meuro Innovation & SMEs 350 Meuro

3. IST Basics • 3.9B Euro over four years (1999-2002) • Combines research, development & take-up • Content defined in annual workprogramme • Support to best proposals (competition) • Competition launched through “call for proposals” • Fixed deadline and continuous submission • Evaluation by independent experts • Contracts to selected proposals (~9months after call) • Projects lasting typically 18-36 months

4. KA1Systems & services for the citizen KA3Multimediacontent & tools KA2 New methods of work & Electronic Commerce KA4Essential technologies & infrastructure Research networking Future & emerging technologies Organisation & Integration Cross Programme Themes

5. The budget KA1: Systems and services for the citizen 646 MEURO (18%) KA2: New methods of work and electronic commerce 547 MEURO (15%) KA3: Multimedia content and tools 564 MEURO (16%) KA4: Essential technologies and infrastructures 1,363 MEURO (38%) Future and emerging technologies 319 MEURO ( 9%) Research networking 161 MEURO ( 4%) Cross-Programme themes at least 10% of programme

6. Suppliers Users from discovery ………………………moving towards market Activities Dissemination and awareness Take-up RTD Networks of excellence

7. RTD Technology Transfer Commercial Phase “T a k e - u p” innovators early adopters early majority time “Take-up” “Aimed at transferring leading-edge as well as established but insufficiently deployed methodologies and technologies to industry and other organisations in order to achieve greater efficiency” • Trials • Best practice actions • Assessments

8. IST Support Activities • Networks of Excellence and working groups • Project clusters • Channelling of Standardisation and Interoperability initiatives • Improving Human Capital in IST-Research • Enabling RTD Co-operation with Newly Associated States • Enabling RTD Co-operation with 3rd Counties Note - Continuous submission for support measures (Support measures that are specific to a Key Action are called under the fixed deadline scheme) - Submission to DG-Research calls … • SME cooperative research & exploratory awards • Marie Curie training fellowships and bursaries for developing countries

9. 1999 Jan Apr Jul Oct 2000 Jan Apr Jul Oct 2001 Jan Apr Jul Oct 2002 Jan Apr Jul Oct ~1200 MEuro ~950 MEuro ~850 MEuro ~330 MEuro Call-1 Call-2 Call-3 Call-4 Call-5 Call-6 Call-7 Call-8 Budget 1999 Budget 2000 Budget 2001 Budget 2002 IST timetable

10. WP2000 - priorities • Integrated approach to natural interactivity and user-friendliness • Networked embedded devices (mobile and fixed) • Convergence of infrastructure ( Mobile, IP, ..) • Integration of interactive and broadcasting services • Supporting dynamic business value chains • Reconsidering service development and provision • Strengthening trust and confidence

11. KAI: Areas and AL’s Health Transport and tourism • Systems for health promotion and disease prevention • Environments for patients • Systems for general practitioners and nurses • Demonstrations and best practice Elderly and disabled • Assistive systems and interfaces to compensate for • functional impairments Administration • Smart Government 2005 • Environmental management, risk and emergency systems • Humanitarian demining Environment • Infrastructure for improved mobility management • In-vehicle systems for security, comfort and efficiency • Systems for improved tourism and travel services • Demonstrations and best practice in electronic fee collection

12. KAII: Implementing the programme’s vision • Orientation: The development of a networked economy where individuals and organisations can seamlessly come together and interact through a ubiquitous infrastructure that promotes both trust and confidence • Objective: Development and adoption of novel IST solutions for eCommerce & eWork aimed at enhancing: • industrial competitiveness • quality of work life • trust & confidence

13. Creative, visual & mobile content • author & deliver interactivemedia • adapt existing content to new infostructure • filter, navigate & visualise digital objects • discover & extract knowledge • Natural & multilingual interaction • enable multi-modal man-machine interaction • develop multilingual service & device frontends • Education & training • design new learning paradigms for schools • develop systems & services for life-long learning Priorities across KAIII

14. Software, Systems & Services KAIV: Strategic Focus & Architecture Simulation, Visualisation & Interfaces Computing, Communications & Networking Mobile & Satellite Communications & Systems Microsystems, Subsystems & Peripherals Micro- & Opto-electronics

15. KAIV: Main highlights • Strengthening infrastructure convergence • IP/Mobile/fixed • Broadcasting and communications • Higher visibility to networked embedded devices, and related architectures • Embedded devices, software, real-time systems • Highlighting Openness of software and systems

16. CPAs (pulling the pieces together) • Eight Actions • Natural interactions and dialogue modes (enjoyable…) • Home environments (ambient intelligence at home) • Survivability of large scale systems (trust and confidence..) • Mobility (mobile services..) • Next Generation Networks ( convergence of infrastructure) • Socio-economic (usability, acceptability,…) • Smart cards (seamless services..) • Statistical tools, methods, indicators & applicationsfor the Information Society

17. Research networking • Interconnection of research networks (Gbit/s) • To procure and manage state-of-the-art trans-European broadband interconnections amongst NRNs • Advanced experiments (test-beds)

18. Future and Emerging Technologies: why are we here? To support research that is: Visionary and exploratory Longer term or high risk A nursery of novel ideas - trend-setting It is a multidisciplinary job It covers all areas covered by the Key Actions +++ from a different perspective so criteria and procedures differ. The budget is about 300 million euro

19. FET Quantum Information Processing & Communication Nanotechnology Information Devices OPEN Proactive Initiatives ……

20. Bionics Nanotechnology Quantum Information Information Ecosystems ……. Physics Engineering Materials Chemistry Biology Computer Science Cognitive Sciences

21. The business we are in • Planning, designing and launching research programmes and initiatives • Evaluating proposals • Negotiating contracts • Monitoring projects • Associated administrative and financial matters

22. FET: Types of action • Research (RTD) projects • including assessment projects • Networks of Excellence • Working Groups • Grants to conferences

23. Networks of Excellence Networks of Excellence are a framework of collaboration between industry, universities and research centres, around common R&D objectives Attributes: • Long term goals, research strategies and roadmaps • Critical mass • Openness • Geographic distribution • NEXUS - microsystems • HITEN - high T electronics • i3-net Examples: • SCENET - superconductivity • AGENTLINK - agent technology • NEURONET - neural networks

24. The OPEN scheme • Accept any idea of quality* • Widest possible spectrum • Proposals submitted at any time • Innovative work that could lead to breakthroughs or major advances: • Bold ideas involving high risks • Longer term research *Quality in FETs = Innovative idea, with potential for strong impact, advancing the state of the art; may be high risk or long term or combination of both

25. The OPEN schemeProject Types • Assessment projects • Opportunity to validate an idea • 1 year contract (lump sum up to 100 keuro) • Full scale projects • Standard RTD contract In both cases, a “short proposal” is submitted first

26. REQUESTING AN ASSESSMENT PROJECT SHORT PROPOSAL NO ASSESSMENT PROJECT REQUESTED EVALUATION REJECT ASSESSMENTCONTRACT FULLPROPOSAL FULLPROPOSAL EVALUATION REJECT RTD CONTRACT FET Open Scheme

27. The entry point to the OPEN schemeThe short proposal • 5 pages - free format • What you want to do • Why is it important (what difference will it make?) • Whether you need an assessment project or not

28. The next step in the OPEN schemeThe full proposal • What, Why and How? • Follows standard format for RTD proposals

29. REQUESTING AN ASSESSMENT PROJECT SHORT PROPOSAL NO ASSESSMENT PROJECT REQUESTED EVALUATION REJECT ASSESSMENTCONTRACT FULLPROPOSAL FULLPROPOSAL EVALUATION REJECT RTD CONTRACT Open Scheme

30. FET Proactive InitiativesWhat they are • Take a lead in areas strategic for the future • Focus on visionary, challenging goals • critical mass, timeliness, impact • Set trends for future R&D • MEL ARI and i3 (4th FP) • Two initiatives launched in 1999 • Two more to be launched in 2000

31. FET Proactive InitiativesHow they work • Coordinated project clusters • Autonomous but complementary • Common long term goals • Shaping vision(s) of the future • Integrated approach • Collective negotiations • Dovetailing projects • Grouped reviews • Adaptation of objectives • Network of Excellence and Dynamic Roadmaps

32. FET: Portfolio of activities

33. FET projects: Information hardware area(projects running on 1.1.2000)

34. FET projects: Computer and networksciencesarea (projects running on 1.1.2000)

35. FET projects: Interaction technologiesarea(projects running on 1.1.2000)

36. FET: participant types • Universities: ~ 55% • Research centres: ~30% • Industry: ~15%

37. FET Proactive initiatives underway • MEL ARI: Optoelectronic interconnects (1996) • MEL ARI: nanoscale ICs (1996, 1998) and NID (1999) • I3 and ESE (1996, 1998) • QIPC (1999)

38. Motivations 1996-2001: MELARI (Microelectronics Advanced Research Initiative) • CMOS showstoppers visible (power density, interconnects, lithography, etc.) • Physical, engineering and financial limits 1999-2003: NID (Nanotechnology Information Devices) • alternatives to evolutionary “shrink” technology • the next wave of innovation: novel nano-scale architectures and molecular scale fabrication by self-assembly

39. Melari: The nature of the projects Q-switch Spider Charge Siquic Nanotech Spinup Fabrication Nanowires Lasmeds Quest Devices Locom Rsfq-hts Quadrant Fasem Architectures Answers

40. NID: Specific Objectives • Novel architectures for information processing systems, adequate for nano-scale implementation • Issues: fault-tolerance, self-test, topological regularity, local power, parallelism, general purpose vs. application-specific,... • Novel devices at the level of a logic gate, memory cell, or elementary processor • What molecules, atoms, or nano-structures? • Issues: scalability, RT operation, interconnects, interfaces to the macroscopic world, low power • Nanofabrication tools and techniques for the fabrication of structures with critical dimensions below 10 nm • Combination of techniques from biology, biotechnology and chemistry with surface patterning and SPM • Issue: cost!

41. NID: The Nature of the projects Nanomem Bun Nanolith Chanil Fabrication Bioand Saturn Saneme Nanomol DNA-based electronics Devices Architectures Cortex Self Assembly

42. MELARI: Nature of Partners SIEMENS SOLVAY INSTITUTES THOMSON CSF TU DELFT TU EINDHOVEN UNIV. AUT. MADRID UNIV. BARCELONA UNIV. CAMBRIDGE UNIV. CHALMERS UNIV. COLLEGE LONDON UNIV. COPENHAGEN UNIV. CRANFIELD UNIV. DORTMUND UNIV. DUISBURG UNIV. EXETER UNIV. GRONINGEN UNIV. KASSEL UNIV. L'AQUILA UNIV. LINKOEPING UNIV. LUND UNIV. MCMASTER UNIV. NOTTINGHAM UNIV. NOTRE-DAME UNIV. PISA UNIV. REGENSBURG UNIV. STUTTGART UNIV. WUPPERTAL UNIV. WUERZBURG UNIV. THESSALONIKI UNIV. TUEBINGEN UNIV. TWENTE VTT WEIZMANN INSTITUTE CD PLANT CEA / LETI CNR / IESS CNR / BIOFISICA CNRS / CEMES CNRS / CRMC2 CNRS / GPEC CNRS IMN -UNIV. NANTES CNRS / L2M CNRS / LPLE CSIC / CNM MADRID DERA ERICSSON COMPONENTS ERICSSON MICROWAVE SYSTEMS ENEA HITACHI EUROPE IBM ZURICH IEMN-ISEN IMEC INESC INSTRUMAT INTRACOM KFA JÜLICH KUNGL TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN MICRO RESIST TECHNOLOGY NANOSENSORS NCSR - IMEL NMRC OMNICRON PHYS. TECH. BUNDESANSTALT RWTH AACHEN SGS-THOMSON

43. NID: Nature of Partners TU DELFT TU DRESDEN TU MÜNCHEN TU WIEN UNIV. DUBLIN UNIV. HAMBURG UNIV. WIEN UNIV. AARHUS UNIV. BASEL UNIV. CAMBRIDGE UNIV. CHALMERS UNIV. COLLEGE LONDON UNIV. COPENHAGEN UNIV. DUISBURG UNIV. KIEL UNIV. LEEDS UNIV. LIVERPOOL UNIV. LUND UNIV. MONS UNIV. NANCY UNIV. PISA UNIV. STRASBOURG UNIV. STRATHCLYDE UNIV. WUPPERTAL UNIV. WÜRZBURG UNIV. ZURICH VTT ELECTRONICS CEA CNRS / CEMES CNRS / Lab. Emis. Electr. CNRS / Lab. Photophys. Mol. CNRS / IMN -UNIV. NANTES CNRS / IDFE CSIC / Inst. Biol. Molecular CSIC / Inst Materiales Barcelona ECOLE SUPERIEURE NORMALE FhG- ISIT IBM ZURICH IFW DRESDEN INFINEON MAX PLANCK FESTKOERPER MAX PLANCK MICRO RESIST TECHNOLOGY MICROELEKTRONIK CENTRET DK MOTOROLA NMRC SONY TECHNION THOMSON CSF

44. Industry THOMSON-CSF

45. MELARI: 14 projects, 65 distinct partners, 16.7 Meuro NID: 11 projects, 59 distinct partners, 17.2 Meuro 25 new partners More multi-disciplinary approaches, less “pure” physics or engineering consortia From MELARI to NID

46. FET funding for Nanoelectronics NID

47. Devices, Circuits & Architectures Nanofabrication Printing MELARI/NID Working Groups Objectives • exchange information about current work • promote collaboration between projects • discuss technological problems • discuss new ideas • give input to the roadmap • new WG can be proposed any time Nanofabrication: Top DownTechnology Modelling Self Assembly

48. Objective Monitoring Nanoelectronics Common view of the field Recommendations for research needs PR tool for NID and the individual projects “Customers” decision makers in research, industry and government Nanoelectronics Roadmap

49. Initiative on Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3) - Background • i3: new interface paradigms for the broad population • First set of 13 projects launched in 1997: • Local Community • Inhabited Spaces • ESE Call: Focus on Early Learning as an application domain

50. Educational Technology • Is Educational Technology enough? • Gutenberg and PCs in schools • Facing the global economy • New “school environments”: new ways of learning and new tools 5/18