FET Flagship - Horizonte 2020

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