Future and Emerging Technologies José-Luis FERNANDEZ-VILLACAÑAS MARTIN email: [email protected] European Commission - DG CONNECT Directorate C - Excellence in Science FET in Horizon 2020 Excellent Science pillar in H2020 •European Research Council •Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions •Future and Emerging Technologies •Research infrastructures programme FET: Pathfinding Europe's technological future FET in Horizon 2020 "Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities." COMMISSION PROPOSAL ON ESTABLISHING HORIZON 2020 THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (2014-2020) Not just ICT technologies FET's mission • To promote and support the emergence of radically new technology areas that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth and will make a difference for society in the decades to come. • To shape European leadership in research and innovation on the most promising such future and emerging technologies, e.g. by tackling grand S&T challenges through a novel pan-european approach. • To turn Europe into the best environment for responsible multidisciplinary collaborations on such future and emerging technologies. • To initiate the development of European research and innovation ecosystems around such future and emerging technologies, as seeds of future industrial leadership. FET Gate-keepers FET – 3 complementary funding schemes Open, light and agile FET-Open Early Ideas Uncorrelated Research projects Exploring novel ideas Roadmap based research FET Proactive FET Flagships Exploration and Incubation Topical clusters of research projects Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives Common research agendas Developing topics & communities Addressing grand challenges FET Open • Inheriting the FET Gate-keepers • supports early-stage collaborative science and technology research around new ideas for radically new future technologies. • is bottom-up targeted research, not Blue Sly Research only • builds on the strength of interdisciplinary, unconventional collaborations • strives for new research and innovation practices. • acts as a detector for promising new areas • attracts new bold-visioned and high-potential research (mostly academic) and innovation players, including young ones and SMEs. FET Open in H2020 • 'Open is open': all technologies, no topical scope. • 40% of the FET budget in H2020 (~1B€). • An end-to-end light, fast scheme: • 15 page proposals • 1 step submission, 1 stage evaluation • Instruments • Research and Innovation Actions • Coordination and Support actions FET Proactive - nurturing emerging themes and communities • Inheriting the FET Gatekeepers • A set of thematic initiatives on promising emerging research themes. • Building up a European pool of knowledge and new interdisciplinary communities. • Joint exploration or consolidation of promising future technologies. • Topics defined bottom-up (FET Observatory): • FET-Open portfolio analysis • Participatory engagement with industry and society • Coordination and support actions FP7 FP5-6 FET Proactive Initiatives in the past FET Proactive • Balance between continuity and new directions • Provide the strategic sustained support over longer time when appropriate. • Creation of communities, for instance in, BioICT, quantum technologies, Neuro-IT, complex systems • Successful transfers for instance in quantum cryptography, cognition, nano-tech, robotics, bio-ICT FET Proactives in WP1014-15 Global Systems Science (GSS) • The challenge is to improve the way scientific knowledge can stimulate, guide, and help evaluate policy and societal responses to global challenges eg o climate change o financial crisis o Pandemics o global growth of cities • Policy challenges shall be addressed by radically novel tools for producing and delivering scientific knowledge to the policy processes. FET Proactives in WP1014-15 Knowing, doing, being: cognition beyond problem solving • New foundations for future robotics and other artificial cognitive systems • Deeper understanding of non-performing aspects of social robotics • Development and interaction in mixed human/technological settings • Improved understanding of the impacts of the technologically enhanced environments on the human behaviour, at the individual and collective levels • Understanding the origins and development of synergies and divides in socio/technical contexts and ways to influence them FET Proactives in WP2014-15 Towards exascale high performance computing Context: • HPC PPP expected to be formalized with ETP4HPC by end 2013 • SRA available www.etp4hpc.eu/strategy/strategic-research-agenda/ • FET proactive to be coordinated with complementary work in LEIT (Advanced Computing, Photonics), ECSEL and RI. • HPC strategy defined by EC communication: "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a global race", adopted 15 Feb 2012 FET Proactives in WP2014-15 Towards exascale high-performance computing • HPC core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications • • HPC Ecosystem Development – (CSAs) • • Core technologies, architectures, programming methodologies, APIs, mathematical and algorithmic approaches Coordination of HPB strategy, virtual European centre in HPC computer architecture. Targeted Opening with Russia • Mathematics, algorithmics, programming interfaces and interoperability of tools FET Flagships FET Flagships are ambitious, large-scale, long-term, science-driven, goal-oriented, roadmap-based research initiatives tackling grand challenges in S&T. They are expected to: • provide S&T leadership, transformational impact on science, technology and society • lead to novel innovation clusters in Europe • facilitate alignment of national and regional research efforts, thus increase the impact of European research and innovation efforts and will require: • cooperation among a range of scientific communities/disciplines, with industries and with the involvement of representatives from the civil society • a long-term commitment of all key stakeholders sharing a common scientific vision and under a strong leadership • a joint effort of EU and national programmes to provide a large financial support (~ 100 M€/year over a long period: ~10 years) FET Flagships - Policy Context Apr. 2009 COM (2009)184 ‘Moving the ICT frontiers’ "Launch at least two FET flagship initiatives by 2013" July 2009 ISTAG report "European Challenges and Flagships - 2020 and beyond" Dec. 2009 The COMP Council "invites the Commission to propose Europe-wide flagship initiatives in FET to tackle specific science and technology challenges at the crossover between ICT and other scientific disciplines" Flagships Genesis Graphene & Human Brain Project selected Launch FLAG-ERA FET Flagship: Graphene Graphene, is a 2D material , a single layer of carbon atoms, stronger than diamond, yet lightweight and flexible and an exceptional electricity conductor. The Graphene Flagship will bring graphene, and related 2D materials, from academic labs to industry, manufacturing and society. Artistic impression of a corrugated graphene sheet Credit: Jannik Meyer Examples of products: electronic paper bendable smartphones enhanced solar cells and batteries lighter and more energy efficient airplanes On the longer term, graphene is expected to give rise to new computers and revolutionary medical applications such as artificial retinas. Nokia Morph concept - Credit: Nokia Research Center FET Flagship: Graphene The GRAPHENE Consortium consists of 80 Partners. Leading institutions include: CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB [COORDINATOR] SE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE FR THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE UK THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER UK CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE IT AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS ES COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES FR NOKIA UK Limited UK TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT NL UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE CH MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. DE FET Flagship: Human Brain Project (HBP) HBP will create the wold's largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed models of the brain (from genes to mind), for studying how the human brain works and ultimately for simulating and developing personalised treatment of brain diseases. This research lays the scientific and technical foundation for medical progress: identifying new drug targets and treatment, in response to the urgent need to combat brain diseases and their associated costs to society. HBP will also produce brain-inspired ‘neuromorphic’ computing systems that could drastically reduce power-consumption for super-computers and enhance robots. FET Flagship: Human Brain Project (HBP) The HBP Consortium consists of 81 Partners. Leading institutions include: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE CH RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG DE FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH DE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE FR KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET SE UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID ES TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN DE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH UK HOSPICES CANTONAUX CHUV CH BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION ES COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES FR FET Flagships – Opportunities Graphene and HBP complementing and widening expertise with new partners - ensuring openness – right now! Competitive calls under FP7 rules • 20-30 new & full partners added to each flagship, must be legally independent from current partners Call 'Human Brain Project' http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ 2013-10-01 – 2013-11-06 (now closed) • ~ € 9 millions in each flagship 2014 - 2016 Call 'Graphene' (preliminary info): http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/ FP7 Flagship ramp-up phase 10/2013- 03/2016 Likely start of projects fall 2014 2013-11-25 – 2014-02-03 (deadline) FLAG-ERA FET Flagships ERA-NET with 31 Ministries & National Research Funding Organizations from 24 MS/AS Accession of new FLAG-ERA members welcome at any time! KPI > 150% KPI around average KPI < 50% MS w/o flagship participation MS w/o FLAG-era participation Enhanced complementarities and synergies of regional, national, European and international research programmes and initiatives, with: a) Networking / discussions of matters of interest related to the two FET Flagships; b) Identification of areas that could complement the core projects to launch future joint calls for research projects; c) Reducing the fragmentation of the ERA by taking up new opportunities for Excellence KPI for total MS/AC participation impact in both flagships; being composited per country from individual indicators: population, GDP, number of legally independent flagship partners per country, EC flagship budget allocation per country FET Flagships in WP2014-15 • Two Framework Partnership Agreements between the EC and the Flagship partners will be established through a call in 2014 in order to formalise in particular: • the EC long-term commitment to support the Flagships, and • the partners' commitment to establish, maintain and implement the strategic research agenda of each of the Flagships • Two core projects for the two FET Flagships (WP2014-15 + later WPs) • Complementary projects are foreseen to complement expertise and ensure openness (as from WP2016 + later WPs) FET Flagships in WP2014-15 Coordination and support actions creating the policy environment for the FET Flagships – 2014 • The dissemination of information on the FET Flagship initiatives and their results • Supporting collaboration between the FET Flagships and international programmes • Assessing the impacts of FET Flagship initiatives, including through metrics and indicators • Analysing market potential and supporting technology transfer • Collection of information need for policy making, e.g. through consultation actions and surveys Flagships in H2020 European Commission FPA FPA Graphene Core Human Brain Core Complementary Complementary FLAG-ERA (MS+AC) FET WP2014-15 in summary Call FET-Open - fostering novel ideas Topic 1: FET-Open research projects Topic 2: Coordination and Support Activities Call FET-Proactive - nurturing emerging themes and communities Topic 1: Knowing, doing and being; cognition beyond problem solving Topic 2: Global Systems Science (GSS) Call FET Proactive - towards exascale High Performance Computing Topic 1: HPC Core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications Topic 2: HPC Ecosystem Development Topic 3: Targeted Opening with Russia Call FET-Flagships - tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges Topic Topic Topic Topic 1: 2: 3: 4: Framework Partnership Agreement Graphene FET Flagship Core Project Human Brain Project FET Flagship Core Project Policy environment for FET Flagships HORIZON 2020 Thank you for your attention! 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