D5.4 Final Project Report...Start date and lifetime of project: Period covered by this report: January 1st, 2016 – 30 months January 1st, 2016 – June 30th, 2018 Organization name

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D5.4 Final Project Report with publishable summary, and estimation of impact

D5.4

Final Project Report

ICT Policy, Research and Innovation

for a Smart Society June 2018

www.picasso-project.eu

March 2016 www.picasso-project.eu

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Project Deliverable

Project Number: Project Acronym: Project Title:

687874 PICASSO ICT Policy, Research and Innovation for a Smart

Society: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration

Instrument: Thematic Priority

COODINATION AND SUPPORT ACTION H2020 ICT

Title

D5.4 Final Project Report

with publishable summary, and estimation of

impact

Contractual Delivery Date: Actual Delivery Date:

Month 30 (June 2018) 12 June 2018

Start date and lifetime of project: Period covered by this report:

January 1st, 2016 – 30 months January 1st, 2016 – June 30th, 2018

Organization name of lead contractor for this deliverable: Document version:

Inno TSD V1.0

Dissemination level ( Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Programme)

PU Public X

PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission

RE Restricted to a group defined by the consortium (including the Commission)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission)

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Authors (organizations): Eva Fadil (inno TSD)

Contributions from ATC, TUDO, TUD, APRE, GNKS

Reviewers (organizations):

Svetlana Klessova (inno TSD)

Abstract:

This document represents the Final project Report of the PICASSO project. It provides an overview of major

outputs and results of the project with emphasis of the impact generated by the project activity.

Keywords:

Final report, impact, result, output, achievements

Project Coordinator:

Svetlana Klessova, inno TSD Place Joseph Bermond Ophira 1 – BP 63 F – 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex Tel: (++33) 4 92 38 84 26

Fax: (++33) 4 93 65 41 35

E-mail: [email protected]

Project website: http://www.picasso-project.eu/

Disclaimer This document is provided with no warranties whatsoever, including any warranty of merchantability, non-

infringement, fitness for any particular purpose, or any other warranty with respect to any information, result,

proposal, specification or sample contained or referred to herein. Any liability, including liability for infringement

of any proprietary rights, regarding the use of this document or any information contained herein is disclaimed.

No license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights is granted by or in

connection with this document. This document is subject to change without notice.

PICASSO has been financed with support from the European Commission.

PICASSO brought together prominent specialists willing to contribute to enhancement of EU-US ICT collaboration.

PICASSO did not represent EU or US policy makers, and the views put forward do not necessarily represent the

official view of the European Commission or US Government on the subject. PICASSO cannot be held responsible

for any use which may be made of information generated. This document reflects only the view of the author(s)

and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information

contained herein.

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Table of Contents Executive Summary for Publication ............................................................................................... 5

1 Project context and objectives ............................................................................................... 8

2 Main activities and related impact ....................................................................................... 11

2.1 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of Big Data ..................................................................... 11

2.2 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of IoT/CPS ...................................................................... 13

2.3 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of 5G Networks .............................................................. 15

2.4 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the EU-US policy dialogue related to the technical core fields ..... 17

2.5 Impact through the Transatlantic Symposia .................................................................................... 19

2.6 Impact through Dissemination (transversal topics) ......................................................................... 20

2.6.1 Website & social media ................................................................................................................. 20

2.6.2 CROSSROADS ................................................................................................................................. 22

2.6.3 Access Opportunities..................................................................................................................... 23

3 Lessons learnt and observations for better progress in the EU-US collaboration .................... 25

List of Figures Figure 1: Measurable objectives ........................................................................................................................... 10

Figure 2: The chart of engaged external stakeholders via activities of the PICASSO 5G Expert Group ................ 16

Figure 3: CROSSROADS – display of some pages as on a phone ........................................................................... 23

Acronyms and Definitions

Acronyms Defined as

BDVA Big Data Value Association

CPS Cyber Physical Systems

DoA Description of Action

EC European Commission

EG Expert Group

EU European Union

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

IoT Internet of Things

US United States of America

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Executive Summary for Publication

About the PICASSO Project

The PICASSO project “ICT Policy, Research and Innovation for a Smart Society: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration“ (January 2016 – June 2018), funded under the European Union Horizon 2020 programme, brought together EU and US prominent specialis ts with the aim of reinforcing EU-US ICT collaboration in pre-competitive research in key enabling technologies related to societal challenges of common interest – 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems - and to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue.

The aim of the 30-months PICASSO project was to firstly reinforce EU-US collaboration in ICT research and innovation, and secondly to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue in these fields. The PICASSO project provided an exchange platform for EU and US experts through three EU-US thematic ICT Expert Groups (5G Networks, Big Data, and IoT/CPS) and one EU-US ICT Policy Expert Group. The synergy between experts in ICT policies and in ICT technologies was a unique feature of PICASSO which brought benefits to both the policy and the technology communities in the EU and the US. Furthermore, interested EU and US specialists were invited to contribute to the analytical materials of the project, as well as to participate in project activities.

In order to set directions for the project activity, several analyses have been concluded. These analyses have identified 130+ ICT Networks and Projects in EU, and 300+ in the US, have studied over 35 Policy documents and regulations from EU and US side and covered over 45 EU and US ICT programmes in the overview. The first major analysis provided the Panorama of the ICT landscape in the EU and the US, including information on policies, regulations, programmes and networks in the EU and US. The document identifies gaps and opportunities, the key challenges in the selected domains and open problems, and the needs for supporting policy measures and strategic EU-US initiatives (both policy and research related). The second major analysis relating to industrial drivers, societal needs, and priorities for EU-US ICT collaboration was performed on the basis of 70+ interviews with industry representatives from both large and small companies in Europe and the US, covering 18 industry sectors. Overall this produced 61 recommendations, however, there were common themes put forward by different sectors such as standards for interoperability of interconnects, wireless communications, protocols for data exchange, the need for data governance, clarity on data ownership, regulation for privacy and the strong need for security. The most fertile areas for collaboration were identified to be in the areas of Smart Transportation and Smart Cities.

Together with the results stemming from the analysis of opportunities in relevant US programmes for EU organisations and vice versa, all the information has been integrated into a mobile application and online tool, the so-called PICASSO “CROSSROADS – Your EU-US ICT info-hub”, aimed at being the EU-US ICT collaboration info hub. These web pages and mobile app gather valuable information specifically for the three technical focus areas of the project, cover 80+ main ICT open Calls (EU and US) and over 350+ ICT projects and networks’ lists organised by topics, as well as information on numerous other relevant events and documents.

All PICASSO Expert Groups have worked in a core team of at least 6 members from the EU and the US each, but ensured taking into account the insights of the wider community. Public events have been organised for this purpose by each Expert Group, such as the Trans-Atlantic Workshop on Public Private Partnerships for Big Data, which took place in Versailles, France, on November 20th, 2017 in

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conjunction with the European Big Data Value Forum 2017 and which was organised by National Science Foundation (NSF) Big Data Innovation Hubs, in collaboration with the PICASSO Big Data Expert Group, BDVA and INRIA. In addition, two Symposia have been organised by PICASSO in collaboration with other relevant initiatives and organisations, that brought together technical and policy experts, as the agendas combined key notes and sessions from all PICASSO domains. Co-organisation partners had contributed to the agenda through additional sessions, providing thus an outlook to complementary topics such as transport, cybersecurity, etc. The first Symposium, organised as “Trans-Atlantic Symposium on ICT Technology and Policy - 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems for a smart society” took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 19-20, 2017 and gathered some 90 attendees from industry, governmental agencies, and academia. The second edition is co-organised with the Wilson Center as “2nd Annual Transatlantic Symposium on ICT Technology and Policy - Leveraging People, Technology, and Information for a Smart and Connected Society” in Washington, DC, on June 18-19, 2018 and will be featured on a live webcast, expected to ensuring even wider outreach and impact.

Throughout the three years and further the analysis of the existing landscape, an Opportunity Report has been developed by all Expert Groups that points out new avenues for EU-US research, innovation and policy collaboration. The Opportunity Report has been reviewed by external specialists, bringing consensus in a large community of stakeholders from research, industry and networks/associations. Strategic initiatives for future collaboration have been suggested on this basis in all technical domains. The technical Expert Groups have in addition recommended priorities for EU-US ICT collaboration, suggested 12 strategic initiatives, and proposed measures to stimulate the policy dialogue and collaboration in these areas.

In addition and in parallel, policy experts have identified policy gaps and prepared Policy Briefs on data protection and privacy, security, standards, spectrum and digital communities, as well as an ICT White Paper that summarises major aspects of the topics treated in the policy briefs and gives an outlook to future fields where joint actions of policy makers would help overcome barriers for collaboration. All policy reports have been developed under the specific angle of the PICASSO technical domains. The policy briefs have been presented as draft and discussed in specific webinars with participants from the EU and the US, gathering their feedback before the completion and publication. They have been used for a number of policy events such as the global Internet Governance Forum, and European and US Internet Governance meetings such as EuroDIG and IGF USA.

In order to build on the accumulated knowledge and expertise of the project partners and experts, a number of information items such as fact sheets on the technical domains have been shared with the stakeholder community and 4 webinars were organised to promote “access opportunities” in EU and US funding programmes. Of course, project activities and achievements, as well as news of interest for the project stakeholders were regularly shared through the PICASSO project website and social media channels.

The impact of the initiatives like PICASSO are usually visible a few years after project completion. However, it can be already stated that PICASSO:

• Identified industrial drivers, societal needs and challenges for industry to collaborate in the topics of PICASSO interest;

• Reinforced the strategic partnership with US in the areas of mutual interests: IoT/CPS, 5G Networks, Big Data and policy related to these technological domains through an expert-driven approach bringing together high-level stakeholders and strengthening the community build-up;

• Increased visibility for EU and US R&D activities and research excellence and promoted funding opportunities in H2020 and US programs;

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• Increased visibility for EU ad US initiatives, networks and projects by setting up strong partnerships and promoting their complementary activities in PICASSO events and communication channels;

• Created a widely used e-tool (mobile app and web pages) to strengthen information and knowledge exchange for EU-US ICT collaboration;

• Established a vision for key technologies supporting smart cities, smart energy and smart transportation through wide analyses and exchange with experts in PICASSO Symposia;

• Pin-pointed and analysed policy gaps or overregulation in ICT policies and regulations related to the technology fields and societal challenges;

• Investigated and put forward recommendations and proposed 12 strategic initiatives to policy makers to further enhance and facilitate EU-US ICT collaboration;

• Explored options and proposed and promoted topics for exclusive EU-US collaboration.

The PICASSO consortium has been combining academic, industrial and policy support experience and included the EU-based partners Technische Universität Dortmund and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, THHINK Wireless Technologies, UK, Athens Technology Centre, Greece, Agenzia per la Promozione delle Ricerca Europea, Italy, GNKS Consult, The Netherlands, and the US-based partners Honeywell International, The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (MFJMCE) at Florida International University, and the Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota, USA. The project was supported by NIST – the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. The PICASSO partnership was led by inno TSD, France.

More Information and Contact:

[email protected] - Project Coordinator

www.picasso-project.eu

@picasso_ICT

PICASSO – EU/US ICT research, innovation and policy collaboration

Access CROSSROADS, your EU-US ICT Info-Hub: http://www.picasso-project.eu/crossroads/

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1 Project context and objectives

The aim of the 30-months PICASSO project was (1) to reinforce EU-US collaboration in ICT research and innovation and (2) to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue in these fields.

More specifically, the project objectives were: Objective 1. To enhance ICT cooperation focusing on the pre-competitive research and innovation between EU and US industry and academia in ICT fields of common interest related to the societal challenges. The target group consisted of ICT companies, end users and researchers, especially those who are involved in industry-driven projects.

PICASSO has:

• Analysed industry-related programs, priorities, and networks in the EU and the US in the three technology domains related to smart cities, smart transport, and smart energy,

• Analysed industrial drivers, societal needs, the barriers to exploitation, involving EU and US industrials and major networks.

• Developed, published and widely distributed an Opportunity Report for large and small industries, academia and networks from the EU and the US, highlighting specific EU-US collaboration opportunities in the areas of IoT/CPS, Big Data, 5G, and policy, and providing detailed background information including analyses of technological EU and US research and innovation priorities, a survey of the EU-US funding and collaboration landscape, the major barriers for EU-US collaboration, and the current EU and US policy environment. A preliminary version of the report was used for public consultation in webinars/events organised by the project Expert Groups and finalized after consensus with the community.

• Developed, tested and deployed “CROSSROADS” – a mobile app and on-line tool aimed at being the EU-US ICT collaboration info hub for PICASSO stakeholders.

• Organised two Trans-Atlantic Symposia on ICT Technology and Policy (Minneapolis, June 2017 and Washington, DC, June 2018) involving stakeholders from research, industry and policy

• Promoted funding opportunities in H2020 and US programs, both through the publication of information fact sheets and the organization of webinars, and provided support to US specialists to access EU opportunities, and vice versa through a helpdesk.

Objective 2. To provide specific contributions to the EU-US dialogue on ICT policy, standardisation and regulatory issues in the ICT sector as one of the key drivers of sustainable and inclusive growth. The target group of this activity were policy makers.

PICASSO has:

• Pin-pointed and analysed policy gaps or overregulation in ICT policies and regulations related to the technology fields and societal challenge. The topics were treated with reference to specificities of the PICASSO technological domains and have been as follows:

o Privacy and Data Protection; o Security; o Standards; o Spectrum o Digital Communities.

• Developed the topics in policy briefs, proposing ways forward in order to achieve fair competition and equal access to markets and technologies, and helped to improve the mutual

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understanding of the differences in approaches and policies and to overcome unproductive blocking situations.

• Added visibility to EU policies and regulations in the context of EU-US ICT collaboration, through the organisation of webinars on the same topics.

• Developed an ICT Policies White Paper that summarises major aspects of the topics treated in the policy briefs and gives an outlook to future fields where joint actions of policy makers would help overcome barriers for collaboration.

Objective 3. Propose new avenues and develop strategic initiatives in core ICT technology areas: 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, related to societal challenges, aiming at facilitating EU-US ICT collaboration between industry and academia. The target groups were policy makers, funding agencies, multi-stakeholder platforms, and networks.

PICASSO has:

• Investigated and put forward strategic initiatives for EU-US ICT collaboration, following the directions pointed out in the Opportunity Report, for each of the technological domains. These are constructed on the basis of the situation in each field and spread from recommendations for joint communities to the set up of a joint collaboration programme on autonomous IoT-enabled cyber-physical systems for example.

• Explored options and proposed and promoted topics for exclusive EU-US collaboration under joint or coordinated schemes, to support EU-US pre-competitive research and innovation related to the core ICT technological areas and societal challenges. The results of the joint call between Horizon 2020 and NSF on advanced wireless will be looked at with interest.

The table below provides an overview of the project’s measurable objectives and targets achieved:

Activity Indicator Target Achieved

Analysis of industrial drivers and societal needs, and ICT landscape overview

Interviews On-line survey recipients – ICT industry companies Policy documents and regulations from EU and US side analysed EU and US ICT programmes covered in the overview ICT networks and projects in EU included ICT networks and projects in US included Report on the ICT landscape Report on analysis of industrial drivers and societal needs

50+ 100+ 20+ 15+ 30+ 30+ 1 1

70 159 37 49 132 316 1 1

Access opportunities to the EU and US programmes

Access opportunities in EU for US ICT firms and in US for EU forms (ICT calls) Webinars on access opportunities (possibly jointly with other projects) Number of participants in the webinars Info-sessions or info-pack at the project events or other events Number of participants in info-sessions Ad hoc advice to EU and US ICT specialists

20+ 4 150+ 10+ 500+ 50+

70 (42 EU + 28 US) 4 113 (out of 385 registered) 6 + 5 on policy Not applied 62

CROSSROADS (content comes as contribution of other activities)

ICT Programmes (EU and US) covered Main ICT Calls (EU and US) covered ICT projects and networks list, organised by topics FAQ – number of questions Helpdesk – number of requests On line version Apps (iOS and Android)

10+ 10+ 60+ 50+ 50+ 1 2

8 88 397 13 62 1 2

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Users number by the end of the project 2000+ 3422 Expert group activities, and EU-US community enhancement

ICT Expert Groups (5G Networks, Big Data, IoT/CPS, policy) ICT Expert group meetings (3 per group, some are done jointly) Opportunity reports (1 per group) Proposals for strategic initiatives (2+ per group) Success stories Public events around the expert group meetings (some are done jointly) Webinars around the expert group topics LinkedIn groups around the expert group topics Lessons learnt and recommendations summary (1 per group)

4 12 4 8+ 10+ 12+ 3+ 3+ 4

4 12 4 12 Not applied 01 142 53 Not applied4 4

Policy dialogue support actions

Report on opportunities for an enhanced EU-US ICT collaboration EU-US ICT policy and innovation conference Number of participants for the EU-US ICT conference Policy briefs on EU-US policy dialogue topics Related policy webinars Number of participants in the policy webinars (in total) White Paper

1 1 100+ 5 5 100 1

1 1 + 1 to come 90 + more to come 5 5 115 (out of 247 registered) 1

Dissemination, promotion campaign, awareness creation

Communication and dissemination plan Project brand set (logo, letterhead, PPT template, poster) Number of visits of the project web portal Project presentations during other events Number of press-releases Number of publications (articles, press releases, etc.) Newsletters (on-line: with links to web site) PICASSO factsheets with summary of results (mid-term and final)

1 1 5000+ 25+ 10+ 20+ 4 2

2 1 6782 94 9+ 1 to come 22+ 3 + 1 drafted 1 + 1 to come

Sustainability Exploitation and Sustainability Plan 1 1 Final event Number of invitations

Number of participants (100+ if back-to-back to a larger event)

300+ 70+

650+ (including social media) Not known yet

Figure 1: Measurable objectives

1 It was decided not to develop explicit success stories due to budget limitations and since the expected benefit is not clearly discernible. Instead, the opportunity reports, which are the major outcomes of the project, were developed to reference suitable success stories.

2 Three large public events were organised by PICASSO in the US, going beyond the original planning, the first public workshop in Washington in 2016 plus two trans-Atlantic symposia in Minneapolis (2017) and Washington (2018). At each of these events, the PICASSO Expert Groups organized separate public sessions. In addition, the 5G and Big Data Expert Groups attached their 3rd EG meetings to public events.

3 2 webinars on 5G, 2 webinars on IoT/CPS, 1 webinar on Big Data (in addition to the 5 policy webinars).

4 The PICASSO LinkedIn group did not attract sufficient interest to warrant the establishment of additional groups.

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2 Main activities and related impact

2.1 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of Big Data Big Data is generating an intense amount of attention among businesses, media and even consumers, along with analytics, cloud-based technologies, digital channels and data visualization. These are all part of the current diverse ecosystem created by the technology megatrends. Some even herald the potential transformative power of the current trends as rivalling that of the internet. Yet, as in the early days of the internet, there is uncertainty about just what Big Data is, its potential benefits and the associated risks. Both the EU and the US are funding numerous research and innovation activities related to Big Data in order to tackle a number of societal challenges, identified by policy makers and structures. However, performing joint research for Big Data is a challenge that cannot be overseen, as both regions face common challenges that can be jointly tackled. The PICASSO Big Data Expert Group was formulated and worked towards achieving the following goals:

• Establishing strong links for R&D&I collaboration among Big Data Structures in the EU and US

• Charting a high-level status of the Big Data sector in Europe and the US

• Charting the greatest opportunities for collaboration between EU and US utilizing the most competitive strengths of each side

• Outlining a list of the most competitive achievements, challenges and opportunities

• Finding the barriers and opportunities stemming from relevant EU and US policy issues The following experts were involved in the Big data Expert group:

• Dr Nikos Sarris (Expert Group Chair), member of Steering Committee Big Data Value Association, ATC – Athens Technology Centre

• Prof. Dr. Sören Auer – University of Bonn, Head of Enterprise Information Systems group, Member of the leadership council of Fraunhofer-Insitute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS)

• Dr Andreas Metzger – University of Duisburg-Essen, Head of Adaptive Systems and Future Internet Applications, Chief technical architect of the European Future Internet Public Private Partnership project on transport, logistics and agri-food (FIspace), Deputy general secretary of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and steering committee vice chair of the European Technology Platform NESSI

• Dr David Belanger – Stevens Institute of Technology, Senior Research Fellow, Co-Leader IEEE Big Data Initiative and member of the Board of Advisors – IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Internet of Things

• Mr Michail Bletsas – MIT, Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab • Mr Wo Chang – Digital Data Advisor for the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) • Mr Ray Walshe – Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. Lead Editor of ISO WG9 Big Data

Standards, Head of Ireland Delegation for Big Data at NSAI, Member of Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG) for DG-CNECT at European Commission, Steering Board member for NetWorld2020 the European Technology Platform for communications networks and services, Chair of Standardisation Group at Big Data Value Association (BDVA), Digital Leader at World Economic Forum

• Dr. Pantelis Angelidis – VIDAVO, Professor of eHealth at University of Western Macedonia

The PICASSO Big Data Expert Group managed to establish, maintain and operate a large community of actors who vividly engaged in PICASSO’s activities, such as the development of the Big Data opportunity report and the elaboration of strategic initiatives proposals to be shared and disseminated to policy makers from both regions in order to influence and shape the future of Big Data collaboration.

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Moreover, these reports have been shared through this community to very wide network of stakeholders both from the EU and for the US, while specific policy maker institutions (such as NSF and DG Connect) are also aware of the outcomes of these report or have directly contributed. Indeed, for achieving the goals mentioned above, the PICASSO Big Data Group, with the support of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the US Big Data Hubs, has managed to set up and operate a “EU-US Big Data Open Community of Experts”. This community includes over 50 individuals representing a number of EU, US and International organisations and associations – in addition to the initial EG core members. After two Expert Group meetings between the core members in May 2016, Washington, DC and in June 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the larger community was mobilised in and took part in a number of activities organised and coordinated by the PICASSO Big Data Expert Group. As a major milestone, the community organised and met during the Trans-Atlantic Workshop on Public Private Partnerships for Big Data, which took place in Versailles, France, on November 20th, 2017 in conjunction with the European Big Data Value Forum 2017 and was organised by National Science Foundation (NSF) Big Data Innovation Hubs, in collaboration with the PICASSO Big Data Expert Group, BDVA and INRIA. The event marked a crucial first step in establishing a productive EU-US relationship for advancing big data science: Participants sketched out a vision for applying big data to benefit society and cultivating a workforce capable of fulfilling this vision. The workshop uncovered potential synergies between the two regions, offered insights relevant to prioritizing future research investments in research, innovation and training, and yielded promising leads for potential jointly-funded projects to propel research and innovation. Several common challenges also became clear. Issues around data sharing, interoperability, and standardization, for example, were apparent in nearly every domain and application discussed. A major result of this community is the identification of common research and innovation topics between the EU and the US (Data Analytics, Data Protection & Privacy, Data Processing Architecture and Data Visualisation and User Interaction) and common technological domains and challenges (Security, Smart Transportation, Standardisation & Regulation, Opportunities in Education & Workforce, Big Data for Smart Cities, Big Data and the Environment-Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Big Data for Better Health). The community has worked on making specific proposals of how the two regions could work for advancing on these topics. Furthermore, the “EU-US Big Data Open Community of Experts” has provided significant input to the

PICASSSO Big Data Expert Group for the identification and development of the two strategic initiatives

which highlight the importance of EU-US collaboration on Big Data, which have been shared with policy

makers from both regions: Strategic Initiative Proposal 1: BIG DATA EU-US Task Force for Enhancing

Collaboration and Strategic Initiative Proposal 2: Joint R&D projects under the H2020 or FP9 umbrella.

All members of the community have expressed their willingness and commitment to continue jointly working on a number of critical Big Data issues by providing their personal time and effort in order to build a sustainable forum able to enhance EU-US collaboration in the Big Data field. This community, originally initiated by the PICASSO project, will remain active after the project ends. The role of the community operator has been taken over by the South Big Data Hub, which orchestrates frequent exchanges with all community members and collaborates closely with senior members of BDVA in order to define a sustainable collaboration formula for this network. The Working Groups will continue to work after the end of the PICASSO project, as part of this community. More information can be found in the Opportunity report on Big Data: http://www.picasso-project.eu/outreach/project-reports/

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2.2 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of IoT/CPS The main objectives of the PICASSO Expert Group on the Internet of Things and Cyber-physical Systems (IoT/CPS) were (1) to identify the key societal challenges where the intersection of IoT and CPS will offer a large potential for improvements, (2) to analyse and compare technology strengths, technology gaps, the collaboration landscape, and barriers for collaboration in the EU and in the US, (3) to disseminate information on EU-US collaboration to a wide variety of industry, academia, and policy stakeholders, and (4) to develop concrete proposals for future EU-US collaborations that will help to solve key societal challenges for IoT-enabled cyber-physical systems, i.e. modern large-scale technical systems in which streams of real-time data from a large number of IoT-connected devices with sensing capabilities enable new approaches for monitoring, optimization, management, and intelligent service provision that promise large improvements in performance, cost-efficiency, and safety.

The following members were involved in the Expert Group:

• Dr. Sebastian Engell (Expert Group Chair), Professor, TU Dortmund, Germany (chair)

• Dr. Tariq Samad, Senior Fellow, Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota, US (co-chair)

• Dr. Massoud Amin, Director, Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota, US

• Dr. Chris Greer, Director of the Smart Grid and CPS Program Office and National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability, NIST, US

• Dr. Amit B. Kulkarni, Global R&D Leader for Wireless and IoT, Honeywell ACS, US

• Dr. Paul D. Nielsen, Director and CEO, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, US

• Dr. Martin Serrano, Principal Investigator & Data Scientist, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland

• Dr. Haydn Thompson, CEO, THHINK, UK

• Dr. O. Sinan Tumer, Senior Director, SAP Co-Innovation Labs, SAP Labs LLC, US

• Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit, Chief Executive Officer, Modelon Inc., US, and Co-founder, Modelon AB, Sweden

• Dr. Ovidiu Vermesan, Chief Scientist, SINTEF, Norway, and chair of WG01 of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)

The Expert Group developed the PICASSO IoT/CPS Opportunity Report that provides comprehensive analyses and comparisons of EU and US cross-domain and application-specific drivers and needs, enabling technologies, research and innovation priorities, current funding and collaboration landscapes, and potential barriers for collaboration in the IoT and CPS sectors. The report was developed using extensive analytical work as well as in-depth discussions and validations with a large network of EG members and external stakeholders, including the US funding agencies NSF and NIST, the relevant EC units, industry-led associations, international technology companies, other EU-US collaboration initiatives, international expert networks, R&I projects, and a variety of roadmapping initiatives. Based on these background investigations, a list of six technology themes was defined that are most promising for EU-US collaboration:

• Closing the Loop in IoT-enabled Cyber-physical Systems

• Model-based Systems Engineering

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• Trust, (Cyber-)security, Robustness, Resilience, and Safety

• Integration, Interoperability, Flexibility, and Reconfiguration

• Autonomy and Humans in the Loop

• Situational Awareness, Diagnostics, and Prognostics

An initial list of collaboration opportunities and mechanisms was proposed. The report has been discussed face-to-face with a variety of stakeholders (in personal interviews and at events of PICASSO and of other initiatives) and was circulated widely, with positive feedback by a variety of relevant stakeholders from the EU and the US. Feedback from important stakeholders indicated that the analyses and comparisons of the EU and US R&I priorities and applications domains, as well as the analyses of the collaboration environment and potential barriers are seen as very useful to promote the understanding of the “other side”, and to clarify the concrete options that exist for future collaborations and their success probabilities, where the practical relevance of the report is strengthened by the comprehensive feedback that was provided by many stakeholders.

Following the publication of the results of these efforts, the initial set of collaboration opportunities was then elaborated, prioritized, and refined in discussions, meetings, and webinars to develop two concrete proposals for strategic initiatives that should be realized over the following two years to foster EU-US collaboration.

A major insight that resulted from the activities of the Expert Group is that the currently strained political climate has made it challenging to establish concrete opportunities for EU-US collaboration. While there are currently some initiatives in the IoT space in this direction (and there are calls that are specifically focused on EU-US collaboration on the next-generation internet in the H2020 work programme 2018-2020), we have found that collaboration in the CPS space (which is the focus of the EG) is currently only feasible for scientific collaboration but not for the type of projects that the EU sponsors in the LEIT domain.

Taking this into account, the first strategic recommendation of the Expert Group is to establish a joint EU-US knowledge exchange initiative in the short term that ensures that regular exchanges on important technology topics will be established over the next years between EU and US experts to foster a common understanding of EU and US experts of the existing challenges and opportunities, and to determine the concrete benefits and synergies that EU-US collaboration actions can provide. In addition, the exchange of researchers, practitioners, and students between the EU and the US will widen horizons and will be an important part of a comprehensive education of the future workforce in the IoT and CPS domains.

In the longer term, a joint collaboration programme on autonomous IoT-enabled cyber-physical systems should be set up in the Framework Programme FP9 that is co-funded by the EC and the NSF and that provides coordinated calls for low-Technology Readiness Level (TRL) research & innovation projects to advance the state of the art in autonomy and autonomous IoT-enabled cyber-physical systems. The specific call topics should be based on the results (i.e. the concrete R&I topics and technology and application scenarios) that are generated by activities of a joint EU-US knowledge exchange initiative that is described above.

The EG has validated the findings in the opportunity report with the IoT and CPS units of the EC in personal interviews and has discussed the contents with US funding agencies on several occasions as well. In addition, the EG has investigated the feasibility of a coordinated call between the EU and the NSF unit with the EC CPS unit during the first half of the project. This effort was not successful.

The work of the IoT/CPS Expert Group has “kept the channels open” between EU and US IoT/CPS experts despite the challenging political climate and has led to a comprehensive collection of analyses and comparisons of EU and US RDI priorities, application sectors, funding environments, and potential barriers. Our analyses clearly indicate that there is a need and potential for EU-US collaboration, and

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our activities have created a common understanding on both sides, and our results have already generated significant interest in all targeted audiences.

Concrete guidelines for the establishment and support of EU-US collaboration actions have been created that can be built upon by all relevant stakeholders. The relevance of our results is guaranteed by the contributions from high-level experts from EU and US funding agencies, industry (networks), and academia, and several actors have already expressed interest in participating in such actions. This material will be valuable for many external stakeholders even after the end of PICASSO, e.g. in follow-up initiatives that are established in response to our recommendations. In addition, the lessons learnt in this work, as well as the new EU and US contacts, partnerships, and working relationships that were established in PICASSO, will be beneficial for all participants in the future, e.g. to establish follow-up activities and projects. Several of the actors that were part of the IoT/CPS Expert Group are involved in other initiatives in the area of international collaboration and will continue to pursue the PICASSO objectives and to promote the PICASSO results.

2.3 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the field of 5G Networks

In the PICASSO project period, the 5G Expert Group chair identified and invited several top experts in the 5G network area based on the scope of the 5G group. In total, 9 experts were assembled to the PICASSO 5G Expert Group and provided their insights and contributed their visions on EU-US collaborations in the field of 5G networks on a voluntary basis. Those experts are:

• Prof Gerhard Fettweis (Expert Group chair) – Vodafone Chair Professor, TU Dresden Germany, IEEE Fellow, member of acatech, coordinator 5GLab, Germany

• Mr Leif Johansson – BusDev Manager Northern Europe, European Leaduser Manager RF/Communication, National Instruments, Sweden

• Dr Deborah Crawford – Vice President of Research at George Mason University (GMU), US

• Dr Olav Queseth – Project Coordinator METIS I & II, Ericsson, Sweden

• Dr Amitabha Ghosh – Head, North America Radio Systems Research, Nokia, US

• Mr David Kennedy – Director, Project Coordinator EURO 5G and To-EURO 5G, Eurescom, Germany

• Prof Chengshan Xiao – Lehigh University / NSF, US

• Prof. Matti Latva-Aho – Professor, Head of Telecommunication Laboratory, Oulu University, Finland

• Dr. Meryem Simsek – Senior Scientist, ICSI/Berkeley, US With contributions from the above-mentioned members of the 5G Expert Group as well as PICASSO project partners, the PICASSO 5G Expert Group creates the following impacts:

• Establish an external stakeholder network for EU-US collaboration With the help of members of the PICASSO Expert Groups and through different PICASSO project activities, the 5G Expert Group has gradually established an external stakeholder network with many influential public and private external stakeholders from the EU and the US. With an upcoming project envisioned by EC H2020 ICT-21-2018 and NSF ICE-T programs, some of those external stakeholders are expected to become even more involved and take concrete actions in the EU-US collaboration in the field of 5G networks (or advanced wireless). In this context, the established stakeholder network in

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the Figure 1 will provide a solid foundation for building a sustainable EU-US research community in the upcoming project.

Figure 2: The chart of engaged external stakeholders via activities of the PICASSO 5G Expert Group

• Identify opportunities, challenges, major technology themes for EU-US collaboration

As one important output of the PICASSO 5G Expert Group, the opportunity report thoroughly analysed major opportunities and challenges as well as identified seven technology themes for EU-US collaboration:

o Connecting the last billion – ultra large cell

o mmWave technology at carrier frequencies beyond 100 GHz

o Narrowband IoT devices for goods tracking in global supply chain management

o Ultra-wide band RF IC at mmWave frequency

o V2X for regional niche markets

o Satellite communications for broadband access in oceans

o Spectrum farming

Considering the major challenges facing in building a sustainable EU-US collaboration partnership, the PICASSO 5G Expert Group recommends to focus on technologies that have niche market yet will have strong societal impact. This report and corresponding major results have been disseminated over the established external stakeholder network as shown in the Figure 1. Considering the upcoming project envisioned by EC H2020 ICT-21-2018 and NSF ICE-T programs, those analyses carried out by the PICASSO 5G Expert Group can be used as an insightful guideline. In addition, the identified technology themes could also be used by major public funding agencies, e.g., NSF and EC, for developing future EU-US research collaboration programs.

• Identify potential strategic initiatives for the EU-US collaboration

Based on analyses on opportunities and challenges, the PICASSO 5G Expert Group proposed three types of strategic initiatives for EU-US collaboration

o EU-US Twinning Workshop Initiative o EU-US Twinning Coordination Project Initiative o EU-US academia research collaboration initiative

Also three additional recommendations were provided for constructing the proposed strategic initiatives. Those recommendations together could be used by policy makers on the EU and US sides

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for designing follow-up EU-US wireless collaboration programs of the EC H2020 ICT-21-2018 - NSF ICE-T program.

• Promote EU-US collaboration by improving mutual understanding and visibility

Through versatile PICASSO project activities, e.g., public events, expert group meetings and email discussions, the PICASSO 5G Expert Group has reached a wide range of external stakeholders and discussed individually with different interest groups. During this process, the 5G chair discovered a key misunderstanding between the EU and the US peers, i.e., the definition of 5G differs in the EU and the US sides. The US side will unlikely collaborate on 5G as they consider the 5G research is done whereas the EU’s 5G definition aligns better with US’ “beyond 5G” terminology. This finding has been transferred to the external stakeholders and reported to the EC 5G unit. In addition, the EU and US 5G research landscape developed during the PICASSO project will provide

another solid input to the upcoming project of EU-US collaboration on advanced wireless platform.

• Impact beyond the PICASSO project To our knowledge, through continuous promotion to research communities at both the EU and the US sides, many members of the 5G Expert Group as well as external stakeholders shown in Figure 1 participated in the call for the EC H2020 ICT-21-2018 - NSF ICE-T program at either the EU or the US side. Even the results are not known yet, it is highly likely that the knowledge obtained in the PICASSO project will continue within the next project and inspire the wireless research community on both sides of the Atlantic to continue working together bringing benefits to the both EU and US societies.

2.4 (Expected) impact of PICASSO in the EU-US policy dialogue

related to the technical core fields The global Internet Governance issues provide challenges and opportunities for the three PICASSO technology domains. The PICASSO Policy Papers have been used to inform discussions during the global Internet Governance Forum, European and US Internet Governance meetings such as EuroDIG and IGF USA, and have been shared with ISOC, IETF, W3C, IEEE, ICANN researchers and policy makers. Next to that, we also contributed to activities from the European Future Internet community.

Policy Expert Group members themselves come from industry, research, and internet/telecoms technical communities with deep experience on policy matters, and involved in policy preparation on both sides of the Atlantic. The PICASSO work informs their interaction in the global and national fora as well as relevant workshops they participate in, sometimes explicit (e.g. referring to the PICASSO work during IGF, EuroDIG, USA IGF), sometimes implicit. With involvement over the stretch of the year from Robert Pepper (Aspen Institute – stepped down when he joined Facebook Inc); Dan Caprio (The Providence Group, IGF USA co-organiser); Avri Doria (Technicalities; IETF working group chair; ICANN Board Director) and Dave Farber (Carnegie Mellon University, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Delaware, Keio University Cyber Civilization Director, former RAND, Internet Hall of Fame, we are very well linked in to US and global institutions on ICT policy, standards bodies, and research institutions. On the European side, Jonathan Cave (Warwick University, UK Regulatory Committee, Alan Turing Institute, former RAND, participant to several European related projects), Ilkka Lakaniemi (former FI-PPP Chair, Aalto School of Business, Finland Chamber of Commerce VP Digital Economy and growth), and PICASSO Expert Group Chair Maarten Botterman (GNKS Consult BV, former RAND, ICANN Board Director, IGF DC IoT Chair) we have been able to bring in a lot of issues raised and researched in the associated networks, and bring insights from PICASSO facilitated discussions back into those networks – implicit and explicit.

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The Policy EG also actively reached out to policy makers in government positions that are actively interested in the specific topics at hand on both sides of the Atlantic as to inform them, and to invite them to participate to discussions, where and when appropriate: in the PICASSO context or in other networks. On 15 January 2018, meeting was organised in Brussels with representatives of the relevant policy units in the European Commission around the table with a focus on “standards”. In addition, EuroDIG, IGF USA, IGF have been regular meeting grounds for us. Participation to other events such as the ESRC workshop on issues in SDO decision-making for the Internet complemented that.

Next to engagement with external parties during international events, the Policy EG also organised 5 webinars for which people from these communities and from the other three PICASSO expert communities were invited to discuss the key policy subjects selected by the PICASSO project team (at the suggestion of the PICASSO Policy Expert Group). More than 200 people signed up and were informed, almost 100 participated over the years. Subjects we came to raise insight and awareness on include:

Privacy and data protection: in particular with regards to Big Data and IoT/CPS developments, solutions need to be found to facilitate the development and deployment of needed and desired services, while respecting the (European and US) privacy and data protection frameworks. This will require respecting fundamental privacy and data protection rights by living up to the principles of purpose limitation, data minimisation and explicit consent with all data that could be related to private individuals. In this, beyond the obvious, we raised the issue of the need to deal with algorithms (as they become increasingly important and have a complexity that is difficult to oversee for users); the taxonomy of privacy sensitivity (as to make sure we only “hinder” data collection and/or sharing where needed), and diversity and harmonization (with regards to the different approaches between the EU and the US).

ICT security: many opportunities for collaboration in this field, which concerns truly global issues and global technology development and applications. A number of specific conclusions lead to possible opportunities for EU US ICT collaboration, including for 5G Networks; Big Data; and IoT and Cyber Physical Systems. Overarching policy measures are complicated because cybersecurity and privacy are sensitive topics that may make cross-national collaboration difficult to set up. Therefore, policy measures should aim at supporting and simplifying the collaboration of industry and innovators to solve these issues; the establishment of major direct regulatory measures is likely not feasible within reasonable time horizons between the EU and the US. In the end, people within the EU and US want ICT products and services that serve them and are trusted by them, and need ICT products and services for being able to deal with a number of societal challenges and individual preferences. Better EU-US ICT collaboration can hugely advance this.

ICT Standards: conclusion is that in all PICASSO domains, for EU/US collaboration it mostly makes sense to stimulate participation of sponsored research and innovation in global standardisation platforms, such as IETF, ITU, IEEE etc., rather than at regional level. In addition, it is clear that standards should aim at setting a minimal responsible level, and not less than that. This is because every application of standards will also need to adapt to the specific requirements of that application.

Spectrum: spectrum use has changed dramatically over the last decades and is bound to change even more. Primarily, these changes will bring activity in from the extremes towards a more varied and dynamic centre ground, as the modalities of spectrum management will shift away from static, long-term licensing to a mixture with dynamic and uncontrolled regimes, within broad limits on interference, and spectrum allocation will become less likely to be restricted to specific uses or to all uses by specific single ‘owners’ of a particular band. Our conclusion is that EU/US research collaboration should mainly focus on understanding our common challenges and the ways in which those aspects of these technologies that span our

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two legal, commercial and societal environments can be equipped both to robustly work around the world and to support joint research that exploits these technologies to resolve common problems ranging from food security and environmental damage to financial trading and privacy. Among the various aspects, the possibilities and implications of agility in spectrum allocation and management constitute perhaps the most promising research area.

Digital Communities: communities will be leading what we need, and both trigger service innovation and fundamental innovation, where needed to enable services that truly become part of the fabric of society. 5G Networks, Big Data and IoT hold great promises to further integration and facilitation of Digital Communities – whether they are in close geographic proximity, or consist of geographically dispersed groups with a common interest. It is clear that with the development of 5G Networks, Big Data applications and IoT applications, geographic proximity matters less, and communities (community formation as well as coherence) matter more. Learning from practice is a huge opportunity for both EU and US researchers, as is working together on the underlying technologies to ensure they are secure enough, allow interconnectivity, have privacy addressed from the outset and make good use of available spectrum.

The Policy Expert Group members will continue to share their insights in their networks, recently further expanded to Japan with the appointment of Policy Expert Group Vice-Chair Dave Farber as Director of the Keio University Cyber Civilization Center. These issues are truly global in nature, even if there are specific factors relevant for the US and EU policy contexts.

2.5 Impact through the Transatlantic Symposia

PICASSO has organized two Transatlantic Symposia, the first in June 2017, and the second in June 2018. Main focus of the events is on common views and framework conditions capable to foster the EU-US cooperation around key technological assets and domains, such as IoT /CPS, 5G, Big Data, Standardization, Data protection and Privacy, and around vertical sectors, such as transportation and energy efficiency in Smart Cities. Both symposia are (being) described in dedicated reports, where information related to implementation aspects, contents and results is shared. We consider PICASSO Symposia having generated impact especially in the following dimensions: 1 – Impact on community level 2 – Impact on debate (technological, application, and policy level) 1 – Impact on community: reuniting, mobilising, engaging and enabling a community The symposia brought together outstanding representatives of the academic, industrial, policy maker and civil society communities from both the EU and the US, in the areas of 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems and far beyond. Besides experts on PICASSO focus areas, the symposia also touched at the wider dimensions of technology applications, with speeches dedicated to smart transport, smart energy, smart production, smart cities and digital communities, or to the need to explore an integrate a humanistic approach to technology development, exploring human interaction dynamics in IoT research, or reflecting on the core meaning of “smartness”, in smart cities (“what defines smartness?”). The symposia have mobilised communities of different interests and approaches, showing mutual opportunities and possibilities, and creating awareness about challenges and barriers across different sectors (academia, industry, policy, civil society), focus areas (PICASSO focus areas and beyond), and disciplinary approaches to problem solving (technical, policy, humanities approach).

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The symposium has been the main vitrine to show and report on the results of the PICASSO Expert Groups, as well as a debate framework to push the EG work forward. Under this respect, the Symposia have acted as a platform, enabling deeper international discussion, and engaging individuals directly involved and interested in contributing to such discussions. Such balanced presence of the societal, commercial, scientific and technology, and policy sector is considered important for driving development (“multistakeholder” nature of driving R&I). In particular, regarding the first Symposium, the cooperation between relevant communities has been fostered thorugh the direct involvement of BILAT USA 4.0, Clean Energy Economy Minnesota (CEEM), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the IEEE Control Systems Society, and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS). The same is expected for the second edition. 2 – Impact on debate (technology, application, and policy level) From the content point of view, the Symposia have brought the discussion on technology areas to a more complex front. During the two-day Symposia, topics have been discussed from the technical, policy and application points of view, highlighting mutual or divergent needs and perspectives, as well as barriers and opportunities, or technology gaps to be addressed. Different dimension of thinking have been combined, creating a completeness and complexity of vision which is important in order to ensure the relevance and sustainability of choices and of future perspectives design. The cross-cutting level of policy in particular, has been presented in all its complexity, not only as concerns all different technology and application focus areas, but also regarding the different ways in which R&I (industry & academia) and policy interact (policy-driven R&I; R&I-driven policy). Very relevant has also been the historical and linguistic approach to EU and US policy frameworks, which is important to facilitate – through mutual understanding, policy compatibility and compliance – effective and realistic cooperation mechanisms. The symposia are a first step to reflect on how to continue working together well, involving all the stakeholders that make the different, and addressing R&I challenges taking into account the needed complexity.

2.6 Impact through Dissemination (transversal topics) As a CSA, most impact of the PICASSO project was achieved through the exchange with stakeholders,

either in the Expert Groups or with the wider community. Exchanging with and involving the project

stakeholders into a maximum of project activities, such as events, webinars, consultation for analysis

and strategic reports, but also disseminating information on project actions and achievements have

been at the heart of the PICASSO work. Besides the activities specified above, transversal tools and

actions have been implemented to allow for impactful dissemination which are further illustrated in

the following chapters.

2.6.1 Website & social media

Website

The PICASSO project website – www.picasso-project.eu – was one of the main communication and dissemination channels of the project.

http://www.picasso-project.eu/

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The project website addressed all project stakeholders (scientific and technology experts, policy makers, EU-US or thematic networks, associations and initiatives, etc.). As of end of May 2018, the website counts 6782 unique users. The content of the website was updated periodically (e.g. on a bi-weekly basis, especially with respect to information on project publications and events) but also on demand (e.g. when important news were to be published). The website hosts - as of early June 2018 - 101 news for example. In order to display the most important aspects of the project work and results, specific pages per Expert Group have been developed. The access to CROSSROADS – Your EU-US ICT info Hub dedicated web pages is available through the home page. Also, links have been made through cross-referencing with other relevant projects (BILAT USA 4.0, DISCOVERY, Global5G.org, AEGIS, Cyberwatch.eu, ENRICH in the USA and more) and EU and US networks (Big Data Value Association, 5G PPP, AIOTI, NIST). Specific pages were also elaborated for project events & webinars, as well as for the display of the content of project newsletters. The PICASSO social media channels are displayed equally, and latest tweets are visible on the home page as well. All public project deliverables and additional publications are available on the public repository http://www.picasso-project.eu/outreach/. The project website has been kept up to date on a regular basis until the project end. It will remain accessible at least for another two years, without being updated though. Social Media In addition to the project website, a number of social media channels have been selected to ensure an “online presence” of the project. Some information on Social Media accounts can be found below: Main Social Media Account: PICASSO Project (@picasso_ICT) Twitter: https://twitter.com/picasso_ICT

• 421 Tweets

• 218 Followers with strong networks (e.g. IEEE (197 000 followers), US Big Data Hubs official accounts, EC DG CONNECT Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Unit (4168 followers), Individual Researchers from US and EU, H2020 projects)

• Member in 19 lists (i.e. eu-H2020-specialists, EU-projects, IoT, Big Data)

The twitter account has showed adequate potenial, even though EU_US collaboration on ICT is not a popular term and strugles to create a buzz in the social media. Nevertheless, all tweets have received noticable engagement from the users especially when they were reffering to one of the PICASSO events or webinars. This account will be taken over by the EG groups (mainly the Big Data) and will be used for presenting the work of this group after the project ends. Supportive Social Media accounts: LinkedIn Group: PICASSO – EU/US ICT research, innovation and policy collaboration, https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8493613

• 70 Members YouTube Channel: PICASSO Project (used only as a video repository and not as a dissemination channel), https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCgweqeeyjL_SxkkUM0Islg

• Videos have been placed representing the records of each webinar organized

http://www.picasso-project.eu/outreach/

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In addition, several partners and namely TUDO regularly disseminated PICASSO announcements and results via a personal LinkedIn accounts to more than 800 recipients from the scientific community, industry, policy-making, and civil society.

2.6.2 CROSSROADS PICASSO has developed a mobile app and a dedicated section on the project Website (http://www.picasso-project.eu/) to facilitate collaboration activities in the field of ICT between the EU and the US by providing information and documentation on a single entry-point. Entitled “CROSSROADS – your EU-US ICT info-hub”, this online tool is targeting stakeholders involved in EU-US collaboration, technical experts/researchers from the public and private sector, industry representatives, networks and associations, as well as policy makers from the EU and the US.

As of May 2018, there were 3422 users, etc.

“CROSSROADS – your EU-US ICT info-hub” features various information on how to collaborate in the field of ICT in the EU and in the US. It is structured into four main sections: “ICT Panorama” – “Find opportunities” – “Join us” – “Read on”. Each of these major sections is subdivided and contains a number of information items, notably:

ICT Panorama:

• Databases on 8 existing EU and US ICT-related programmes and 38 networks, as well as 397 current projects, initiatives / facilities and networks in the EU and the US in ICT topics related to 5G, Big Data, IoT/CPS and Policy

• Key note talks, selected by the PICASSO Expert Groups on 5G, Big Data, IoT/CPS, and Policy

• A list of 100 organisations based in Europe and involved in EU/US initiatives (from the DISCOVERY H2020 project)

Find opportunities:

• Information on open calls (88 published in total over time) in the EU and the US relevant to 5G, Big Data, IoT/CPS, Policy

• A quick access to short and clear guides on collaboration and funding opportunities both in Horizon 2020 and US programmes, including participation conditions for US participants in H2020

• Information on existing partner search opportunities – this part provides links to the existing partner search tools, such as IDEAL-IST partner search and DISCOVERY partner search tool

• Helpdesk services and an EU-US collaboration FAQ

Join us:

• Information on the PICASSO Symposia (first edition in June 2017 in Minneapolis, and second edition in June 2018 in Washington, DC, USA), with indications on registration to the conference, maps, logistics information and access to the agenda

• Presentations of the latest upcoming ICT events over the world (63 covered over time)

• Former and upcoming Webinars on collaboration EU-US collaboration in 5G, Big Data, IoT/CPS, Policy

Read on:

• Selected guides on EU-US collaboration and PICASSO reports, as well as factsheets on the thematic priority areas covered in the project, including strategic policy reference framework, funding opportunities in H2020.

• Specific policy-related reports, notably the policy briefs developed under PICASSO.

• Opportunity reports on 5G, Big Data, IoT/CPS, Policy, developed under PICASSO

http://www.picasso-project.eu/

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Figure 3: CROSSROADS – display of some pages as on a phone

2.6.3 Access Opportunities

Collaboration opportunities in PICASSO have been promoted mainly through targeted outreach campaigns via social media, mailing lists, partners’ institutional communication channels, and events. The content offer comprised:

- The publication of the report “Overview on ICT-related access opportunities in EU and US”, which includes information on programmes and specific opportunities in the ICT field – namely, in the Horizon 2020 Workprogramme 2016-2017 and in US major related programmes.

- Six Factsheets summarizing the EU and US landscape on funding opportunities in the focus areas (available on the project website / Expert Group pages and on CROSSROADS).

- A set of four webinars on access opportunities, focused on the collaboration opportunities related to open calls for proposals, communities and relevant stakeholders in the three focus areas of the project. More specifically, the 5G Infrastructure Association, the Big Data Value Association and US Big Data Innovation Hubs, as well as the Industrial Association for IoT (AIOTI) have participated to PICASSO webinars.

- The promotion of PICASSO and the EU/US access and collaboration opportunities at external events.

Access opportunities: Progresses and Challenges

In PICASSO we could identify two major barriers to smooth EU-US cooperation: access to funding; research of suitable collaboration opportunities. As concerns access opportunities to H2020, despite the fact that the programme is fully open to all nationalities, and despite the effort made to simplify the bureaucratic requirements for US participants through the Implementation Arrangement, barriers are still present.

http://www.picasso-project.eu/outreach/project-reports/

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As concerns the ICT domain, the evolution of the Horizon 2020 and the National Science Foundation’s ICT related programmes have highlighted over the last years the intention to favour EU-US cooperation in specific technological domains, notably 5G Networks and Nano-micro-electronics. In particular, the area of Future Internet and Advanced Wireless Platforms has been identified as strategic for research collaboration on issues of common interest and of strategic importance1, and aligned calls have been recently organised by the EC and NSF. H2020 has promoted EU-US cooperation also on other topics, such as standardization, cybersecurity and data protection2. Finally, the willingness to strengthen EU-US dialogues.

As concerns the H2020 side, for 2020 topics with undoubted strategic importance for both sides, such as the ones that have already been object of coordinated calls, a partial cost coverage could be envisaged for US participants, to be provided (see Chapter 3 below):

- By the EC. This could be full, or partial (ceiling; related to certain cost items…), following possible constraints. For example, travel costs for non funded project participants could become a cost item explicitly funded in H2020 collaborative projects, e.g. if they are invited speakers or contributors to the project events.

- By US agencies. Negotiating ad-hoc topic-related agreements with US agencies and counterparts that have a role in the specific research challenge, with a clear prospect for cost coverage.

As concerns instead the access of EU participant to US funding programmes, the main issue remains the fragmentation of information related to agencies’ opportunities. Cooperation still remains something undertaken on a one-to-one basis, based on individual contacts. At this regard, a facilitation role of US NCPs could be beneficial, in order to give orientation to the EU R&I community.

1 Roadmap for EU - USA S&T cooperation, http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/pdf/policy/us%20clean_roadmap_2017.pdf

2 Following the EU-US Summit in March 2014, EU and US leaders underlined the commitment "to expand cooperation in research, innovation and new emerging technologies, and protection of intellectual property rights as strong drivers for increased trade and future economic growth"

http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/pdf/policy/us%20clean_roadmap_2017.pdf

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3 Lessons learnt and observations for better progress in the EU-US collaboration

Throughout the last 30 months, the PICASSO project collected, analysed, discussed and summarized ‘broad’ (non-thematic) observations and lessons learnt that – in addition to technical / thematic recommendations - can be helpful for policy makers/agencies to make progress in the EU-US collaboration. The relevance of these observations/recommendations is guaranteed by the contributions from high-level experts from EU and US funding agencies, industry (networks), and academia, in addition to PICASSO experts. Also, the PICASSO Expert Groups have developed proposals for concrete strategic collaboration actions in line with these recommendations, aimed at policy makers, and describing strategic initiatives that shall be enacted to foster EU-US collaboration – they are briefly presented in the present report. The Opportunity Reports of the technical Expert Groups and the White Paper prepared by the Policy Expert Group complement these strategic initiative proposals.

PICASSO lessons learnt, observations and recommendations are briefly presented below.

1. EU/US collaboration for the global good

The “smart society” imperative is by no means limited to the EU and US, or to developed economies more broadly. Indeed, focusing on applications targeted for such regions often brings up concerns about industry support and international competition. We believe that a collaborative approach with a focus on underdeveloped regions could alleviate these concerns, and that addressing grand-challenge problems with these geographies in mind would be good for the world and all its constituent political units. We should seek opportunities to improve the quality of life and enhance economies in, for example, sub-Saharan Africa. Information and communication technologies and related policy initiatives can help address critical needs in energy, environment, safety, and health. By explicitly targeting the less-fortunate global population we wouldn’t just improve their lot; the world is global in more ways than one.

2. Virtual interaction does not replace face-to-face meetings

Collaboration should be continued with technical experts brought together (technology and scientific level) during real-life, physical events. On-line exchanges are useful as a support tool but do not replace face-to-face interactions. The most desirable mechanism for this is the organisation of joint, thematic EU-US workshops, focusing on specific technological topics, that are co-funded by the EC, for EU speakers and relevant US partners - such as NSF, NIST, or industry associations like IIC and SMLC - for US speakers. The goal of such workshops would be to bring together a diverse group of experts from academia, industry and government to discuss joint collaboration opportunities, identify specific R&I topics and concrete technology and application scenarios that can serve as the basis for targeted collaboration programmes and calls, synthesize a list of benefits and propose concrete scenarios for transatlantic collaboration. The Annual Trans-Atlantic Symposia on ICT Technology and Policy initiated by the PICASSO project are examples of such events and platform creation.

3. Lean funding mechanisms on both EU and US sides are required to support exchanges (joint workshops, staff exchange, twinning)

While heavyweight collaboration measures in some technology sectors do not seem very promising at this stage – even though coordinated calls would seem of interest - lean mechanisms/actions could strongly support transatlantic expert exchange, if set up with low complexity. Examples could be: (1) Set up of a fund for physical interactions - workshops budget - in the H2020 and Horizon Europe ICT Workprogrammes, possibly for a selection of (or all) countries or regions and for various topics. NSF has some “light” mechanism that allows for decisions of event budget support within 2 months. A fund could represent 1-5% (a few mln Eur) of the Workprogramme; cost/benefit ratio is expected to be high.

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(2) Support for fellowship programmes, such as an NGI initiative of Horizon 2020 (ICT-31-2018 call) that foresees travel & subsistence support for 3 to 6 months fellowships. (3) Twinning of projects are seen as interesting lightweight options for collaborative R&I. RIA could require the setup of a limited budget for twinning activities (with a Third Country) already in the proposal.

4. Research and innovation actions are needed, to follow up after support actions

Support actions are necessary to investigate and argument collaboration opportunities – but after them, RIA are needed. To make the activities of thematic CSAs credible and actionable, follow-up research and innovation projects should be planned in the Workprogrammes, and eventually updated and focused on the pool of topics identified by the support actions, if duly justified.

5. Make the cooperation modalities and opportunities more understandable, also by involving

US Agencies and Departments in the collaboration process

Improve the mutual understanding of the terminology: the EU and US refer to scientific priorities with different terminologies and conceptual categories, both at bureaucratic and at technical level. This complicates the scouting of collaboration opportunities, also via search tools. In order to address these limits, the project BILAT US 4.0 has developed a “Wiki Glossary” to set a basis for a mutual understanding on H2020 terminology; it could be customized for specific ICT topics and research areas and extended to the US system to facilitate the application process and the identification of research priorities and cooperation opportunities. Clarifications, guidelines and bridge mechanisms on whether a correspondence exist between EU and US in terms of funding orientation and availability would be important to ease the request of funding on both sides. Difficulties in finding the US share of budget hamper, as a matter of fact, US partners’ motivation in joining H2020 projects, while for EU researchers, a big obstacle is the fragmentation of US opportunities across many different agencies, with very different eligibility requirements. The issue is to better explain and promote mechanisms to match EU-US priorities and interests through, for example, accessibility of support contacts and helpdesk; more understandable grant categorisations and terminologies; areas and guides dedicated to international cooperation mechanisms and opportunities; coordinated actions among funding agencies. Collaboration with various agencies and departments on the US side – in addition to NSF, e.g. with DARPA, DoI, DoE – should be sought by collaborative projects, and initiation of such collaborations can be part of workshop goals (see recommendation about the lean funding schemes).

6. Collaboration in some specific policy-oriented areas should be supported

In an increasingly digitised world, it is crucial we become conscious about what data we collect, where we store them, how we use them and with whom we share them. Whereas for instance concepts like “privacy” differ fundamental in their legal and cultural embedding, preservation of “human dignity” is of joint interest and pending agreement frameworks (analogous to what is already in CETA) present a fruitful ground for further collaboration as to ensure innovation does not get stifled by uncertainties about legal ground and potential litigation.

7. Standards are important, and “global”

Standards with regards to ICT and Internet are not limited by national or regional borders, and stretch across different sectors of application. Because of the global nature, for EU/US collaboration it is important to stimulate participation of sponsored research and innovation in global standardisation platforms, such as IETF, ITU, IEEE etc., rather than a focus at regional level.

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8. Skills / education collaboration is of high interest for both EU and US sides

PICASSO demonstrated that EU and US sides are interested to pursue concertation and common action with regards to skills (example of Big Data Expert Group): a long-term attention to skill development would be an important complementary support to excellent R&I. In particular, there is a great potential for EU and US universities to collaborate in order to fulfil the huge demand of ICT-related graduates, in the topics such as artificial intelligence, big data, etc., mutually sharing experiences. In addition, at a skills level it was noted that it is difficult to recruit for smart jobs. There are also issues of transferring engineers between the EU and US due to differences in qualifications or standards which makes the transfer of people and skills difficult. The role of education is critical, as harmonisation of skills, standards and the process of accreditation would all be beneficial.

9. Alignment of national/bilateral initiatives and EU programmes is highly desirable

Synergies between EU Members States’ national / bilateral programmes and EU projects, and the US dimension, would help to maximise impact. Reflection shall be done on suitable mechanisms that enable the “plug in” of EU initiatives and projects into existing bilateral initiatives, even without funding. It seems beneficial to systematically expand some bilateral initiatives, at some stage, to the EU level and to integrate the US dimension.

10. Industrial (non-funded) collaboration, especially with SME involvement, shall be encouraged

Private companies and industry-led associations were identified as promising partners for EU-US collaboration actions, because they are often more focused on R&I results and, if sufficiently interested, will provide internal funding. Companies are also inherently internationally oriented working across borders. There are two key areas where collaboration may be of interest - sharing of infrastructure and in standardization:

• Sharing of infrastructure such as testbeds and large-scale demonstrators to evaluate novel technologies. This ties in with European aims to encourage sharing of testbeds across Europe. Already the Industrial Internet Consortium perform testbed activities with key EU and US industrial players. A wider scale sharing of testbeds at the EU-US level would require synchronised funding support for collaborative research and innovation both from the EU and US. If significant funding is made available, it may also be possible to set-up new testbeds and demonstrators on high-priority technology topics.

• Industry-driven standardisation activities are important in a rapidly evolving landscape, and international collaboration will be essential to ensure interoperability and smooth integration of future systems. 11. Joint programmes and coordinated calls would boost cooperation in selected topics

Research in the priority areas3 identified by the EU-US S&T agreement has been made easier through different types of bilateral arrangements signed by relevant EU-US agencies. These arrangements span from the alignment of funding priorities and programmes between the EU and US, to mutual opening of respective research programmes to US and European scientists (as it is the case for the agreement between NIH and Societal Challenge 1 topics).

As per the specific ICT sector, the evolution of the Horizon 2020 and the National Science Foundation’s ICT related programmes have highlighted over the last years the intention to favour EU-US cooperation in specific technological domains, notably (currently) 5G Networks/Advanced Wireless and Nano-micro-electronics. Some of these R&I areas represent strategic priorities in both the EU and US markets, and reflection shall be done on whether the conditions exist to consider high-level strategic

3 Health; Marine and Arctic; Bioeconomy; Research Infrastructures; Transportation; Nanosafety and materials

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support under various forms, e.g. on the same line of the Health priority, or through joint programmes, or coordinated calls. The implementation of a joint programme or coordinated call (this is already implemented with some countries, e.g. Japan, South Korea…) with set of projects to jointly tackle specific challenges will enable the sharing of experiences, results, and capabilities among agencies and organisations, shortening the development phase of a project, and allow agencies and organisation to assimilate and integrate new results and solutions quickly. Industry engagement in the programme would demonstrate broader utility, foster better interoperability, maximise investments and share the benefits of projects and technologies, and potentially provide long-term sustainability of solutions. Calls can also tackle societal challenges or emerging topics where ICT plays an important role, such as citizen science.

12. Benefits assessment and promotion of EU-US cooperation activities is required

One key requirement for the successful initiation of EU-U

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