FET Flagships
FET=Future and Emerging Technologies
European Commission Funding
EC FP7 Research
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Climate Action
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DG INFSO ICT Challenges
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Governance
FET
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FET Flagships• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-
proactive/home_en.html• Flagships should be ambitious large-scale,
science-driven, visionary research initiatives that aim to achieve a scientific breakthrough
• Ambitious goals require extensive cooperation
• 10 years• Equivalent to €100m per year (10x100 =
€1billion)• Note: ICT focus and 50:50 support
Flagships Time-line
• Call for Pilot Studies (similar to Coordination Action awards) July 2010
• Call closed December 2nd 2010• May 1 2011 6 Pilot Studies awarded
around €1.5m each for 1 year• 2 Flagships to be selected• 2013/2014 Flagships to set sail
The 6 FET Flagship Pilots
Global computing for our complex world
Background to FuturICT proposal
Why?
What?
How?
What will be benefits?
Why? - the challenges
Banking and Internet
Cascades of failures
Cascades of failures
Why? - the good news
Good News II
What is FuturICT?
New science to explore, understand and manage our connected world.
Modelling the present to protect the future.
New technologies that are socially adaptive and socially interactive, supporting collective awareness.
How? - FuturICT Network
Bring together the fields of ICT, social science and complexity theory so that we manage society in a resilient and sustainable manner.
How? - FuturICT Network
How? – the scientific elements
Global Participatory
Platform
Living Earth
Simulator
Planetary
Nervous System
Innovation Accelerator
What for?
What is? What if?
So what?
How? Observatories
Observatories and Exploratories
Global Participatory Platform
Living Earth
Simulator
Planetary
Nervous System
Innovation Accelerator
FuturICT Innovation accelerator
Innovation Accelerator
Innovation is not a pipeline…
New Science
Money
New Ideas
Innovation
Innovation is an ecosystem
Innovation is driven by platforms
Global Participatory
Platform
Living Earth
Simulator
Planetary Nervous System
FuturICT Platform for Innovation
Detect trends & innovation potential early on;
find best experts for projects
Current
scientometrics
results have a 5 year
delayFuturICT will move
this to near real
time using
alt-metrics
Establish new data publication platforms
Data sharing rates are
< 10%
Platforms for sharing
data think:
Life-science data for
Home-diagnostics start-
up
From incentive to crowd funding
Research projects
Funded by small
investors
Based on their value
to communities
Benefits? - Innovation Accelerator
Outcomes
FuturICT Platform
Flagship Infrastructures
Innovative Management
Other Projects & Programs
Policy Partnerships
Business Partnerships
Dissemination
Science & Arts
Education
Ethics
Exploratory of
Society
Exploratory of
Environment
Exploratory of
Economy
Exploratory of
Technology
Computational Social Science
Complexity Science
Socio-Inspired
ICT
Global Participatory
Platform
Planetary Nervous System
Living Earth
Simulator
Innovation Accelerator