Future and Emerging Technologies

José-Luis FERNANDEZ-VILLACAÑAS MARTIN

email: jose.fernandez-villacanas@ec.europa.eu

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

"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 in Horizon 2020

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 multi-disciplinary collaborations on such future and emerging technologies.

• To initiate the development of European research and innovation eco-systems around such future and emerging technologies, as seeds of future industrial leadership.

FET Gate-keepers

FET – 3 complementary funding schemes

Uncorrelated

Research projects

FET-Open

Early Ideas Topical clusters

of research projects

FET Proactive

Exploration and Incubation

Common research

agendas

FET Flagships

Large-Scale Partnering

Initiatives

Exploring Developing Addressing

novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

Roadmap based research Open, light and agile

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

FP5-6

FP7

FET Proactive Initiatives in the past

• Balance between continuity and new directions

• Provide the strategic sustained support over longer time when appropriate.

• Creation of communities, for instance in, Bio-ICT, quantum technologies, Neuro-IT, complex systems

• Successful transfers for instance in quantum cryptography, cognition, nano-tech, robotics, bio-ICT

FET Proactive

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

• Core technologies, architectures, programming methodologies, APIs, mathematical and algorithmic approaches

• HPC Ecosystem Development – (CSAs)

• 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

"Launch at least two FET flagship initiatives by 2013"

Apr. 2009 COM (2009)184 ‘Moving the ICT frontiers’

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

Artistic impression of a corrugated graphene sheet Credit: Jannik Meyer

Nokia Morph concept - Credit: Nokia Research Center

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.

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.

The GRAPHENE Consortium

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

consists of 80 Partners. Leading institutions include:

FET Flagship: Graphene

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.

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.

FET Flagship: Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

The HBP Consortium consists of 81 Partners. Leading institutions include:

FET Flagship: Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

• ~ € 9 millions in each flagship 2014 - 2016

FP7 Flagship ramp-up phase 10/2013- 03/2016

Likely start of projects fall 2014

Call 'Graphene' (preliminary info): http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/

2013-11-25 – 2014-02-03 (deadline)

Call 'Human Brain Project' http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

2013-10-01 – 2013-11-06 (now closed)

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!

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

KPI around average

KPI < 50%

MS w/o FLAG-era participation

KPI > 150%

MS w/o flagship participation

FLAG-ERA

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

FPA Human Brain Core

European Commission

FPA Graphene Core

FLAG-ERA (MS+AC)

Complementary Complementary

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 1: Framework Partnership Agreement Topic 2: Graphene FET Flagship Core Project Topic 3: Human Brain Project FET Flagship Core Project Topic 4: Policy environment for FET Flagships

HORIZON 2020

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