FET in H2020

European Commission

DG CONNECT

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Unit

Ales Fiala, Head of Unit

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Excellent Science

Societal

challenges

Industrial leadership

H2020, three pillars

FET

FET in H2020

• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) will aim at radically new technologies by exploring novel and high risk ideas building on scientific foundations

• FET will promote research beyond what is known, accepted or widely adopted and foster novel and visionary thinking to open promising paths towards powerful new technologies

• The supported research will be interdisciplinary and positioned between research driven by science and research driven by societal challenges or by industrial competitivness

• FET will support activities to make Europe the best place for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies

FET in H2020

FET – three complementary schemes

FET Open

Individual research

projects

Early Ideas

FET Proactive

Clusters of

projects

Exploration and

Incubation

FET Flagships

Common research

agendas

Large-Scale

Partnering Initiatives

Exploring Developing Addressing

novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

Roadmap based research Open, light and agile

FET Open in FP7 141 Funded projects

• Fostering new ideas

• supporting early-stage science and technology research

• exploring new foundations for radically new future technologies by

challenging current paradigms and venturing into unknown areas

• A bottom-up selection process widely open to any research ideas

• Attractive to new and high-potential research and innovation players

• Mechanisms for early detection and encouragement of promising new areas, developments and trends

• Modelled on FP7 Xtrack

FET Open in H2020

Long-term vision

• of technological possibilities far beyond the state-of-the-art

Foundational

• establishing a basis for a new kind of technology

Novelty

• not incremental refinement of existing ideas and concepts

S&T targeted

• research targets concrete breakthroughs in S&T

High-risk

• countered by novel concepts and ideas and interdisciplinary research approach

Interdisciplinarity

• going beyond current mainstream collaboration configurations

FET gate keepers

Xtrack pilot

Xtrack pilot³ a new submission format, a new evaluation process, a new SEP system…

• Get lighter • From “light submission” to “light end to end process”

10-page proposal & '10+ page' project technical annexe

Mid-term and final review based on periodic scientific report

• Get faster • Reduce time from idea to contract in FET Open

1-step submission with 2-stage evaluation

• Get more robust • Combine internal scalability with high quality review

FET Proactive 22 Initiatives in FP7

FP5-6

FP7

FET Proactive in H2020

Exploratory objective

• Exploring a variety of directions, building up critical mass of researchers and groups around promising emerging themes

• Encouraging of new inter-disciplinary collaborative explorations around a new area/theme

Pathfinding objective

• Translating science into concrete technological directions

• Projects building on proofs-of-concept and, while still high-risk, want to take them to a next level of development

• Consolidating technological directions to be mature enough for hand-over (to LEIT, societal challenges, FET Flagships,…)

Modelled on FP7 Xtrack?

Nurturing emerging themes and communities

FET Advisory Board

Stakeholders

(include LEIT

& SC actors)

1st on-line forum

=> 165 ideas

Dig

est

FET Evidence Base

Portfolio and Community Analysis

Indicators

Trends and Early Signals Research priorities for the list

of proposed proactive topics

2nd on-line forum

FET Workprogramme

Fin

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Consultation

9 proposed proactive topics

Consult other units/DGs Strategic

Programming

Identifying New proactive topics

Internal market for ideas

1297 contributions received to the FET consultation on the proposed pro-actives

• Understanding time for new technologies - 215

• Symbiosis between artificial and natural systems - 130

• Adaptive bottom-up construction - 132

• Ecological ubiquitous technologies - 167

• New possibilities at the nano-bio-chem interface - 156

• Knowing, doing and being, cognition beyond problem solving - 178

• Nanoscale opto-mechanical devices - 59

• Quantum simulation and networking - 71

• Global Systems Science - 189 comments

FET Proactive topics in H2020

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/fetconsult2012topics_en.html

• A special FET initiative in computer science focused on the next

generation of high-performance computing (HPC)

• Three elements of HPC strategy:

• Developing the next generation of HPC towards exascale

• Providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services

• Achieving excellence in HPC applications

• Topics:

• HPC Core Technologies with Application Validation

• Programming Environments for extreme Parallelism

• Mathematics and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism

• HPC Ecosystem Development

• System Software for Extreme-Scale Systems

• Emerging HPC Workloads

• Targeted Opening with Russia

HPC in FET

FET

FET Flagship concept

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• Ambitious, large-scale, science-driven, goal-oriented, roadmap-based research initiatives

• Provide a strong basis for future technological innovation and novel benefits for society

• Require:

- A long-term commitment of all stakeholders sharing a common scientific vision

- A joint effort of EU and national programmes (~100 M€/year over 10 years)

To help overcome the fragmentation of European research & innovation effort and increase its impact

Stimulating ideas & structuring the scientific community 2009 - 2010

Call for Preparatory Actions 21 6 July 2010

Preparatory Phase Pilots 05/11 - 04/12

Flagship selection 6 2 end 2012

HBP & Graphene ramp-up phase Oct. 2013- Mar. 2016

FET Flagships towards H2020

The need was identified by a FET working group of ISTAG 2009

Graphene

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.

Start Date: 1/10/2013

Duration: 30 Months

EC Funding: 54 M€

No of Partners: 75

http://www.graphene-flagship.eu

Human Brain Project (HBP)

•Building a realistic model of the human brain, from genes to mind, on a complex simulation and visualization facility with super computers, to allow:

- New neuroscience

- New medicine (drugs simulation, diseases signature)

- New brain-inspired "neuromorphic" computing

Start Date: 1/10/2013

Duration: 30 Months

EC Funding: 54 M€

No of Partners: 85

http://www.humanbrainproject.eu

Calls launched by the Flagship consortia

• Aim: to complement expertise

• Publication: summer/autumn 2013

• Budget: ~ 8-9 M€ per Flagship

* Only for new beneficiaries i.e. organisations which are not part of the

existing consortium

Call for new partners* to join the running Flagship EU funded project

Call for new partners

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