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Funding opportunitiesFunding opportunitiesstatus: March-2012

Alice CarpentierAlice Carpentier

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Funding opportunities

This presentation details funding opportunitiesThis presentation details funding opportunitiesfrom the EC and Austrian funding agencies:

– FP7– HORIZON 2020– Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)– Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft [FFG)– Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft [FFG)– Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds (TWF )– FI-WARE

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FP7 future calls, schedule

• Call 9– Publication Date: 18-Jan-12– Deadline: 17-April-12– Info:http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=F

P7-ICT-2011-9P7 ICT 2011 9

• Call10– Publication Date: 13-July-12– Deadline: 15-Jan-13

• SME Initiative– Publication Date: 13-July-12– Deadline: to b defined

• Call 11– Publication Date: 18-Sep-12– Deadline: 16-April-13

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NOTE: info for Call10, SME initiative, Call11 available here https://sp.uibk.ac.at/sites/sti/Projects/Shared%20Documents/Projects.aspx

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FP7 future calls, challenges/objectives overview

SME Initiat. Call 10 Call 11

Date of publication 13/7/12 13/7/12 18/9/12

Call deadline To be defined 15/1/13 16/4/13

Challenge 1. Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service InfrastructureObj. 1.2 Software Engineering, Services and computing

€41.5mServices and computingObj. 1.3 Internet of Things and the Digital

€36m

Challenge 4. Technologies for Digital Content and LanguagesObj. 4.1 Content analytics and language technologies

€27m

€31


Obj. 4.2 Scalable data analytics €31m

Obj. 4.3 SME initiative on analytics €20m

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FP7 future calls, challenges/objectives details: Challenge 1

Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructure is designedwith a long term perspective and with a strong focus on the Internet of the future• To continue technological research on all basic building blocks of the Internet value and delivery chain,

i.e. network technologies, digital media, services, security and Internet of objects. Driven by roadmap-basedresearch it progresses the technological characteristics of systems and services.

• To leverage new constituencies, in particular technological innovative industry and SMEs, focussing on newg p g y ggenerations of web-based applications and services, in line with the Digital Agenda for Europe;

• To redefine approaches towards future networked computing systems, laying the basis for the futureEuropean cloud computing strategy in all its dimensions, networks, services, security and content, and movingtowards user-led applications that exploit both widely distributed devices and sensors and the power of clouds.

• To combine technological and social innovation by investigating and experimenting new paradigms related tog y g g p g p gthe Internet, both for future Internet architectures and holistic and multidisciplinary understanding of Internetdevelopments.

• To take the Future Internet PPP into its third and final phase at which it will open up large-scale trials to newconstituencies of innovative developers following an open innovation model.

• In order to move towards an even more integrated, cross-challenges approach proposals that address moreg , g pp p pthan one objective may require coordinated evaluation and implementation.

• Support actions for road-mapping, constituency building (Future Internet Assembly, ETPs, …) andERAnets should be envisaged to prepare the research community for an even more comprehensive approachbringing together research and innovation aspects of complementary challenges in Horizon 2020.


FP7 future calls, challenges/objectives details: Challenge 1, Obj. 1.2

Challenge 1. Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service InfrastructureObjective 1.2 Software Engineering, Services and computingTarget Outcomes

– Delivering services in an effective and reliable manner across the future computing continuum embracing clouds, communicatingobjects and smart devices, possibly utilising open source approaches.

– Expanding Europe's industrial strength in software and services technologies.

a) Innovative software and tools for innovative servicesInnovative Internet-based services exploiting cloud computing platforms, widely distributed computing devices, large distributed data sets andsmart sensors using agile software technologies and tools for any phase of the service lifecycle. This work should be short term and take intoaccount the social, open and collaborative dimensions of software development and service provisioning.

b) Advanced computing architectures and software engineering beyond the CloudImplementation of computing architectures and programming models for the efficient usage of heterogeneous and distributed computingresources spanning the smart device to the large data centre, building on European users' needs and current IoT and cloud architectures andstandards.

c) Coordination and support actions– Support for global interoperability in software and services technologies, achieved through standardization and cooperation.– Promotion of Open Collaboration models in the scientific community and in the software development community.– Support for the adoption of cloud computing in various user domains.


– Road-mapping to prepare for a more comprehensive approach in Horizon 2020.

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Expected Impact – Enlarging the population of SMEs and individual researchers / developers in Europe capable of building innovative– Enlarging the population of SMEs and individual researchers / developers in Europe capable of building innovative

services. – Strengthening the European software industry with the know-how to build complex services and big data management in a

multi-layered cloud computing continuum.– Accelerating the development and deployment of internet services.– Successful contribution to international standardization. – Significantly increasing user engagement.– Effective bridging actions towards Future Internet Services in Horizon 2020.

Funding Schemes:– a), b), : IP, STREP) )– c): CSA

Indicative budget distribution:– IP/STREP: EUR 39.5 million, of which a minimum of 25% allocated to IPs and 50% to STREPs– CSA: up to EUR 2 million p

Call: – FP7-ICT-2013-11



Challenge 1. Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service InfrastructureObjective 1.3 Internet of Things and the Digital EnterpriseTarget Outcomes

– The goal is to facilitate wider uptake of IoT-based systems with a particular emphasis on initiatives supporting sustainable smartcity application scenarios. The focus is on built-in privacy and security technologies, and on scalable data management capabilitiesapplicable to heterogeneous device platforms.Th k i l t t d t d l f f E t i th h d h t i ti it f di it l t d t– The work is also targeted to develop new forms of Enterprises through ad-hoc extensive connectivity of digital assets and toenhance business processes of digital enterprises through integration of sensing capabilities.

a) A reliable and secure Internet of Things, based on security and privacy by design architectures and technologies for connectedobjects. Research covers integration from the onset of security and privacy by design with other functionalities (e.g., naming, addressing,

ti ) th f ll d t d i f ti lif l d t t t i d li l it ti ithi h i I Trouting) across the full data and information life cycle: date capture, storage, processing, delivery, exploitation, within a comprehensive IoTgovernance framework. It takes into account the cross-application nature of objects supported by use cases in multiple fields such as smarthome, smart living, smart communities, taking into account emerging requirements in the context of smart sustainable cities.

b) A smart Internet of Things with scalable and adaptive middleware supporting data flows from sensing devices and a high quantity off f f / fobject instances. It supports the Internet of Things as a heterogeneous network made up of federated private/public area networks composed of

devices with different technological properties (virtualisation). It is complemented with event filtering and management capabilities.NOTE: For items a) and b) above, the technological work is expected to be an enabler of the deployment of intelligent systems that contribute to sustainability objectives in smart cities. Consequently, design requirements and demonstration/validation activities will primarily consider smart sustainable city application requirement as drivers.



c) New models for the Digital Enterprise, based on new forms of business relations and of valorisation of digital assets and supporting extended, virtual or agile enterprises in the Future Internet. Research targets disruptive concepts, methods, architectures, systems and business models for new digital enterprise systems. Solutions proposed should include intelligent interconnected entities (material and immaterial components, e.g. tweets, personal assistants, crowd-sourcing knowledge, natural interfaces, etc.) to support co-operation between people, business assets, devices, resources and services.

d) Applications for the Sensing Enterprise to enhance the global and physical context awareness of business systems through the development of applications for the "Sensing Enterprise" supported by smart components. These components may be sensors, tags, intelligentagents, smart objects, etc. enabling a continuous awareness and improvement of business operations in a digital environment.

e) Coordination and Support Actions – Exploration of scientific and technological cooperation opportunties with emerging countries, such as China and India, in the field

of IoT system deployment supporting smart cities. – International road-mapping activity to the future of the Internet of Things about the integration of research results in various

scientific and technological disciplines, including ICT, nanotechnology, biomedicine and cognitive sciences. – Facilitation and acceleration of the Europe-wide implementation of relevant EU Internet of Things policies, including the

coordination of the Internet of Things European Research Cluster (IERC), and supporting the coordination of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems European Research Cluster (FINES).

– Expected Impact – Scientific and technological models of resilient and reliable IoT applications supporting confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of

the data sensed and exchanged by smart objects. – Technological solutions for IoT virtualised platforms supporting "green" and sustainable smart city applications.– European leadership in the design of new models of business that support and enhance cooperative networking among the wide

range of enterprise assets and artefacts through their entire lifecycle


range of enterprise assets and artefacts through their entire lifecycle.– Take-up and use by European businesses of mobile connectivity and sensing technologies to increase flexibility and productivity

and reduce latency by incorporating data from smart sensors directly into business processes. – Enabling European suppliers to reach by 2020 a share of the IoT market compatible with the size of the EU economy (30% of

world market).

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Funding Schemes – a) : Up to two IPa) : Up to two IP– b), c), d) : STREP– e): three distinct CSA

Indicative budget distribution– IP/STREP: EUR 33 5 million of which a minimum of 25% allocated to IPs and 60% to STREPs– IP/STREP: EUR 33.5 million, of which a minimum of 25% allocated to IPs and 60% to STREPs– Items a) and b) contribute to the Smart City pilot action with an indicative budget of 20 M€– CSA: EUR 2.5 million

Call: – FP7-ICT-2013-11


FP7 future calls, challenges/objectives details: Challenge 4

Challenge 4. Technologies for Digital Content and LanguagesDi it l t t i th t i l b i f ltili l k l d b d i t F th th l i thDigital content remains the material basis for a multilingual knowledge based society. Furthermore, the explosive growthof digital content (both structured and unstructured) makes it important for European citizens and organisations to learnto manage it effectively and to extract from it maximum value in terms of private or public, personal or organisationaldecision making, planning and management, in support of business and inter-personal communication andcollaboration.

As a consequence, the focus of Challenge 4 is on:– exploring and testing new approaches, methods and techniques to extract, interpret and exploit information from unstructured

multimedia sources, yielding actionable knowledge across different languages;– developing and testing in realistic operating conditions new algorithms and software frameworks to analyse and visualize

extremely large volumes of data in real time;– supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the development of innovative applications in structured and unstructured

digital content management and, particularly, in the reuse of open data.

Support actions for road-mapping are also envisaged to prepare the constituencies for an even more comprehensiveapproach bringing together research and innovation aspects of complementary challenges in Horizon 2020.



Challenge 4. Technologies for Digital Content and LanguagesObjective 4.1 Content analytics and language technologiesTarget Outcomes

– Due to the combined effect of globalisation and European integration, there is a growing need for effective solutions that support multilingual business and inter-personal communication, and enable people to make sense of digital services in Europe's many languages.

a) Cross-media content analytics Tools for mining unstructured information embedded in text, speech, audio and video for the purposes of context-aware interpretation,correlation, aggregation and summarisation, turning information into usable understanding and actionable knowledge. Special emphasis isplaced on social intelligence from multilingual sources. Projects shall achieve broad coverage with efficient semantic interpretation. Ofspecific interest is the ability to capture sentiment and represent concepts and events, identify relations and similarities, reason over factsp y p p p , y ,while interpreting time and space, within and across individual media, thus progressing towards their unification in terms of our ability toextract otherwise hidden meaning.

b) High-quality machine translationAdvancing machine translation (MT) by pushing the research frontier and building objective-driven bridges between relevant disciplines.E h i i l d hi h f d il fi bl MT i ldi hi h lit t l ti it bl f bli ti ith littlEmphasis is placed on high-performance and easily configurable MT yielding high-quality translations suitable for publication with little orno human intervention. Expected innovations include effective hybridization of existing and emerging solutions, the ability toautonomously learn from use and human feedback, and to adapt to new situations with high portability and scalability. Work should copewith everyday language as found in consumer-generated content, and with the need to compile translation resources dynamically from theweb or enterprise repositories.



c) Natural spoken and multimodal interactionSpeech-enabled interfaces based upon multimodal verbal and non-verbal communication Projects shall address autonomous human-like socialSpeech enabled interfaces based upon multimodal verbal and non verbal communication. Projects shall address autonomous human like social

agents that can handle conversational speech; learn from interaction and react proactively to new communicative situations; recognize and generate social cues. Systems should be able to cope with spontaneous dialogue and exhibit adequate cognitive (e.g. questionanswering) and affective capabilities in relation to the domain and task under consideration. Technologies should be designed to match multiple delivery platforms, from virtual assistants through smartphones to games.

d) D l i j i t l d id) Developing joint plans and servicesThe target community consists of a wide range of research and commercial organisations that must be brought together to speed up technology

transfer and take-up. The call invites one support action intended to design and lay the foundations of a scalable platform for the joint development/enhancement and hosting of (multi-)language data sets, processing tools and basic services. The action will build upon and extend existing and emerging collaborative infrastructures. The aim is to create over time a comprehensive online repository of reusable modules and components, in the broadest possible range of EU languages.

F h f h ( ) (b) d ( ) h ll i iFor each of the target outcomes (a), (b) and (c), the call invites – (i) a few ambitious projects investigating new approaches and research avenues well beyond the current state of the art; projects

will build on cross-disciplinary partnerships and address multimedia content and multimodal interaction; they shall cover multiple languages and cater for written and/or spoken language as appropriate; technologies shall be adaptive, cope with massive volumes of content, and have a clear potential to support real-life processes;

– (ii) one broad-based support action designed to establish a unifying roadmap in each of the domains under consideration, d l i lli h d i ti d til d b d 2020 t d l ll b ti b t hdeveloping a compelling research and innovation agenda until and beyond 2020, centred on close collaboration between researchcentres and commercial players (particularly SMEs), and based upon agreed reference architectures, common resources (standards, software, data), and shared development and evaluation facilities.



Expected Impact – Strong participation of private-sector players including SMEs well above the FP7 ICT averageStrong participation of private sector players, including SMEs, well above the FP7 ICT average.– A unifying research roadmap aggregating the vision of more than 200 centres; a common innovation agenda based on the

business strategy of more than 100 companies.– Technological leadership and increased innovation capacity as a result of widely accepted roadmaps encompassing presently

fragmented communities.– A European open-source MT system becomes the most widely adopted worldwide; post-edited MT becomes the standard mode of

translation within 5 years increasing significantly (> 25%) the efficiency of human translationtranslation within 5 years, increasing significantly (> 25%) the efficiency of human translation.

Funding Schemes– a), b), c): STREP, CSA– d): CSA

Indicative budget distribution– STREP: EUR 21 million– CSA: EUR 6 million

Call:– FP7-ICT-2012-10



Challenge 4. Technologies for Digital Content and LanguagesObjective 4.2 Scalable data analyticsTarget Outcomes

Tools and skills to deploy and manage robust and highly performant data analytics processes over extremely large amounts of data. User-driven research with public and methodologically sound quantitative performance evaluation criteria is a strict requirement. As a bridge to activities to be pursued under the Horizon 2020 program, two distinct types inter-disciplinary road-mapping activities can be supported: a roadmap for networking and hardware optimisation research and development in support of next generation Big Datasupported: a roadmap for networking and hardware optimisation research and development in support of next generation Big Datamanagement solutions and a second roadmap for the social, legal, economic study of externalities in the (re)use and linking of data.

a) Scalable algorithms, software frameworks, visualization– Novel algorithms, software infrastructures and methodologies for real time visualization, analytics and decision support

applications over extremely large volumes of data. – Data types that are currently experiencing very high growth rates are of special interest including (but not limited to) 3D, genomics,

financial, geospatial, transportation, logistics, telecommunications, engineering, and any type of data stream. – Non-traditional database and storage solutions are solicited for the robust integration of heterogeneous data sources such as static

and streaming data.The availability of extremely large and realistically complex data sets and/or streams is a strict requirement for participation as is the availability of appropriate populations of experimental subjects for human factors testing in the domain of usability and effectiveness. Software implementations must be rigorously tested in the environment of professional organisations with a clear stake in the solution and a clear path to deploying it, if effective.

b) Big Data networking and hardware optimisations roadmap– One inter-disciplinary CSA to bring hardware and networking experts together with designers of algorithms and software

frameworks and Big Data practitioners. This will define a shared European vision for future Horizon 2020 R&D activities on the design of dedicated processing or networking hardware for optimising the performance of Big Data analytics, including programming frameworks that software developers without specialised hardware knowledge could use easily.


p g g p p g yThe roadmap will chart advances in scalability and run-time performance as well as energy efficiency and sound methods for analysing and optimising capital versus operating costs of Big Data operations. The CSA will also be responsible for disseminating the roadmap across relevant constituencies and establishing cross-disciplinary communities with a shared understanding of concrete problems worth investigating in future programmes.

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c) Societal externalities of Big Data roadmap– One CSA to produce a roadmap for future activities on the sharing and reuse of large and linked datasets The CSA should bringOne CSA to produce a roadmap for future activities on the sharing and reuse of large and linked datasets. The CSA should bring

together scholars from the social sciences, open data activists and computer scientists in order to design a European data environment capable of amplifying positive externalities and reducing negative externalities.

– Positive externalities to be addressed include (but are not limited to) economic and legal models for efficient data markets.– Negative externalities include (but are not limited to) the privacy risks that come from the re-identification of personal information,

particularly as a consequence of more and more data sets becoming available and being linked to one another. The CSA will also be responsible for disseminating the content of the roadmap across the relevant constituencies and establishing– The CSA will also be responsible for disseminating the content of the roadmap across the relevant constituencies and establishing cross-disciplinary communities with a shared understanding of concrete problems worth investigating in future programmes.

Expected Impact – Advanced querying and analytics applications with sub-second response times over distributed information resources consisting of

trillions of records.– Ability to query or detect in real time complex events against dynamic feeds of millions of data streams generating hundreds of y q y p g y g g

thousands of events per seconds.– Visualization systems enabling exploratory analysis and manipulation without any perceptible delay on data resources containing

billions of items.– Enabling European suppliers to reach by 2020 a share of the Big Data market compatible with the size of our economy (30% of

world market).

Funding SchemesFunding Schemes– a): IP, STREP– b), c): CSA

Indicative budget distribution– IP/STREP: EUR 26 million– CSA: EUR 5 million


CSA: EUR 5 million

Call:– FP7-ICT-2013-11

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Challenge 4. Technologies for Digital Content and LanguagesObjective 4.3 SME initiative on analyticsTarget Outcomes

Helping European Small and Medium Enterprises acquire the competence and resources they need to develop innovative content and data analytics services. Development of services based on the reuse of open data, particularly from public bodies, is specifically required for theme a) and encouraged for theme c).

a) Integrated Open Data Reuse IncubatorAn Integrated Project to act as an environment for efficient, small scale experiments on the development of services of commercial interest based on the reuse of European open data by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The IP should:

– devote most of its resources to running regularly scheduled and well advertised competitions for SMEs to submit mini-proposals to be funded for a period between six and twelve monthsbe funded for a period between six and twelve months.

– create a computing infrastructure where the winning mini-proposals will find accurate, up-to-date and (when useful and feasible)linked versions of the data they need to pursue their service ideas and, if they so wish, deploy the experimental version of their services.

– establish a mechanism for connecting open data demand and supply by systematically contacting European public bodies about their open data availability and assisting them in the efficient and sustainable publication of such data, if needed with targeted engagementsengagements.

– solicit open data reuse ideas from the general public which it will give broad visibility to in the context of a European wide open data reuse information campaign.

– The IP will finally create a process to connect its successful graduates with alternative sources of funding and business networks.



b) Easing transfer and take-up of language technologies– Language technologies are often deployed within products and services relating to web or enterprise intelligence including textLanguage technologies are often deployed within products and services relating to web or enterprise intelligence, including text

and audio mining, social media analytics, enterprise search and content management, online and cloud based translation, etc. – This action targets focused user- and market-oriented projects in any of the above areas, with the overall goal of bringing language

technologies closer to commercial maturity through an "industrialisation" process including but not limited to: i) engineering of promising but commercially untried technologies, e.g. in terms of performance, robustness and coverage; ii) integration within existing or upcoming products and services; iii) first-use experimentation and validation in a clearly identified application domain; iv) in-depth assessment along technical, used related and economic dimensions; (v) identification of possible exploitation paths) p g , ; ( ) p p pand alternative sources of funding. Consortia shall include players from the demand and supply sides, in particular SMEs, whohave a clear stake in the exploitation of results.

c) Software components and intuitive end user applications based on reuse of open dataDevelopment of software components supporting the whole chain of reuse of open data, particularly from public bodies.This includes:

– usable data publications methodologies and tools, adapted to the operating conditions of typical public bodies and rigorously tested for usability and sustainability in a public body environment;

– methods and tools for linking open data sets produced by public bodies; – methods and tools for optimising open data applications based on public demand both in terms of content and in terms of

functionalities/usability; y;– cross platform development tools for delivering intuitive and responsive open data applications on mobile as well as desktop

environments.

Expected Impact – Expected impact of Objective 4.1 also apply to 4.3b) as far as the application of language technologies is concerned.


– Dozens of data application software components, used by hundreds of developers.– Hundreds of applications, reusing billions of open data records, used by millions of end users around the EU

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Funding Schemes– a): IPa): IP– b), c): STREP

Indicative budget distribution– IP: EUR 5 million, – STREP: EUR 15 million– STREP: EUR 15 million

Call:– FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA


HORIZON 2020 overview

• Approx. €80 billion research and innovation funding programme• 2014-2020• Mid 2012: final calls under FP7 to bridge gap towards Horizon 2020 • End 2013: adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on p g y

Horizon 2020 • Beginning 2014: Horizon 2020 starts; launch of first calls• Info:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/pdf/proposals/com(2011)_811_final.pdf

• Info: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm


HORIZON 2020what’s new

COOPapplied research

32bIDEAS

b i hPEOPLETraining

CAPAC.Infrastructure

€32bn basic research€7.5bn

Training€4.8bn

, SMEs€3.1bn

• Funding shift from “prescribing specific research to topics” to “solving specific challenges”

INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

€18bn

SOCIETAL CHALLENGES€32bn

EXCELLENT SCIENCE€25bn


Infrastructure

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Training

HORIZON 2020 INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

Leadership in enabling and industrial Access to risk

fiInnovation i SMEand industrial

technologies €14bn

finance€3.5bn

in SMEs€0.5bn

1. ICT2. Adv. components and

systems

3 Next generation computing

1. Micro‐, nanoelectronics, photonics

1. Debt facility

2. Equity facility

1. Mainstreaming SME Support

2. Support for2. Nanotechnologies

3. Advanced materials

3. Next generation computing

4. Future Internet

5. Content technologies and info management

2. Support for research

intensive SMEs

3. Enhancing innovation

4. Biotechnology

5. Adv. manufacturing

6. Adv. interfaces and robotsinnovation capacity of

SMEs

4. Supporting market‐driven


6. Spacemarket driven innovation

HORIZON 2020 INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP, Leadership in enabeling and industrial technologies, ICT

Specific objective for ICTIn line with the Digital Agenda for Europe23 the specific objective of ICT research and nnovation (R&I) is to enable Europe to develop andIn line with the Digital Agenda for Europe23, the specific objective of ICT research and nnovation (R&I) is to enable Europe to develop andexploit the opportunities brought by ICT progress for the benefits of its citizens, businesses and scientific communities.To master increasingly complex and multidisciplinary technology and business chains in ICT, partnering, risk-sharing and mobilisation of criticalmass across the Union are needed. Union level action helps industry address a single market perspective and achieve economies of scale andscope. Collaboration around common, open technology platforms with spill-over and leverage effects allow a wide range of stakeholders tobenefit from new developments and apply further innovations. Federating and partnering at Union level also enables consensus building,establishes a visible focal point for international partners, and leads to the development of Union- and world-wide standards and interoperablesolutions.

Broad lines of the activities– (a) A new generation of components and systems: Engineering of advanced and smart embedded components and systems– (b) Next generation computing: Advanced computing systems and technologies;– (c) Future Internet: Infrastructures, technologies and services;– (d) Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content and creativity;– (e) Advanced interfaces and robots: Robotics and smart spaces;– (f) Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics: Key enabling technologies related to micro- and nanoelectronics and to photonics.

These six major activity lines are expected to cover the full range of needs. These would include industrial leadership in generic ICT-basedsolutions, products and services needed to tackle major societal challenges as well as application-driven ICT research and innovationagendas which will be supported together with the relevant societal challenge. These six activity lines shall also include ICT specific researchinfrastructures such as living labs for large-scale experimentation, and infrastructures for underlying key enabling technologies and theirintegration in advanced products and innovative smart systems, including equipment, tools, support services, clean rooms and access to


g p y , g q p , , pp ,´foundries for prototyping.

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HORIZON 2020 INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP, Leadership in enabeling and industrial technologies, Access to risk finance

The specific objective is to help remedy market deficiencies in accessing risk finance for research and innovationinnovation.The investment situation in the research and innovation (R&I) domain is dire, particularly for ninnovative SMEs and mid-caps with a high potential for growth. There are several major market gaps in the provision of finance, as the innovations required to achieve policy goalsare proving too risky, typically, for the market to bear. A facility for debt ('Debt facility') and a facility for equity ('Equity facility') will help overcome such problems by improving the financing and risk profiles of the R&I activities concerned. This, in turn, will ease access by firms and other beneficiaries to loans, guarantees and other forms of risk finance; promote early-stage investment and the development of new venture capital , g ; p y g p pfunds; improve knowledge transfer and the market in intellectual property; attract funds to the venture capital market; and, overall, help catalysethe passage from the conception, development and demonstration of new products and services to their commercialisation.

Broad lines of the activities• (a) The Debt facility providing debt finance for R&I: 'Union loan & guarantee service for research and innovation(a) e eb ac y p o d g deb a ce o & U o oa & gua a ee se ce o esea c a d o a oThe goal is to improve access to debt financing — loans, guarantees, counter-guarantees and other forms of debt and risk finance — for public and private entities and public-private partnerships engaged in research and innovation activities requiring risky investments in order to come to fruition. The focus shall be on supporting research and innovation with a high potential for excellence. The target final beneficiaries shall potentially be legal entities of all sizes that can borrow and repay money and, in particular, SMEs with the potential to carry out innovation and Grow rapidly; mid-caps and large firms; universities and research institutes; research infrastructures and innovation infrastructures; public-private partnerships; and special-purpose vehicles or projects.The funding of the Debt facility shall have two main components:

– (1) Demand-driven, providing loans and guarantees on a first-come, first-served basis, with specific support for beneficiaries such as SMEs and mid-caps. This component shall respond to the steady and continuing growth seen in the volume of RSFF lending, which is demand-led. Under the SME window, activities shall be supported that aim to improve access to finance for SMEs and other entities that are R&D- and/or innovation-driven.


– (2) Targeted, focusing on policies and key sectors crucial for tackling societal challenges, enhancing competitiveness, supporting sustainable, low-carbon, inclusive growth, and providing environmental and other public goods. This component shal help the Union address research and innovation aspects of´sectoral policy objectives.

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HORIZON 2020 INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP, Leadership in enabeling and industrial technologies, Access to risk finance

• (b) The Equity facility providing equity finance for R&I: 'Union Equity Instruments for research and innovation'The goal is to contribute to overcoming the deficiencies of the European venture capital market and provide equity and quasi-equity to cover theThe goal is to contribute to overcoming the deficiencies of the European venture capital market and provide equity and quasi equity to cover the development and financing needs of innovating enterprises from the seed stage through to growth and expansion. The focus shall be on supporting the objectives of Horizon 2020 and related policies. The target final beneficiaries shall be potentially enterprises of all sizes undertaking or embarking on innovation activities, with a particular focus on innovative SMEs and mid-caps.´The Equity facility will focus on early-stage venture capital funds providing venture capital and quasi-equity (including mezzanine capital) to individual portfolio enterprises. The Facility will also have the possibility to make expansion and growth-stage investments in conjunction with the Equity Facility for Growth under the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, to ensure a continuum of support during the start up and development of companies. The equity facility, which will be primarily demand-driven, shall use a portfolio approach, where venture capital funds and other comparable intermediaries select the firms to be invested in. Earmarking may be applied to help achieve particular policy goals, building on the Positive experience in the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme with earmarking for eco-innovation.

The start-up window, supporting the seed and early stages, shall enable equity investments in, amongst others, knowledge-transfer organisations, seed capital funds, cross-border seed funds, business angel co-investment vehicles, intellectual property assets, platforms for the exchange and trading of intellectual property rights, and early-stage venture capital funds.

The growth window shall make expansion and growth-stage investments in conjunction with the Equity Facility for Growth under the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs including investments in funds of funds operating across borders and investingProgramme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, including investments in funds-of-funds operating across borders and investing in venture capital funds, most of which will have a thematic focus that supports the goals of Europe 2020.


HORIZON 2020 INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP, Leadership in enabeling and industrial technologies, Innovation in SMEs

The specific objective is to stimulate growth by means of increasing the levels of innovation in SMEs, covering their different innovation needs over the whole innovation cycle for all types of innovation thereby creatingtheir different innovation needs over the whole innovation cycle for all types of innovation, thereby creating More fast-growing, internationally active SMEs.

Broad lines of the activities• (a) Mainstreaming SME supportSMEs shall be supported across Horizon 2020. For this purpose a dedicated SME instrument shall provide staged and seamless support covering the whole innovation cycle. The SME instrument shall be targeted at all types of innovative SMEs showing a strong ambition todevelop, grow and internationalise. It shall be provided for all types of innovation, including service, non-technological and social innovations. The aim is to develop and capitalise on the innovation potential of SMEs by filling the gap in funding for early stage high risk research and innovation, stimulating innovations and increasing private-sector commercialisation of research results.All f th ifi bj ti i t l h ll d l d hi i bli d i d t i l t h l i ill l th d di t d SMEAll of the specific objectives on societal challenges and on leadership in enabling and industrial technologies will apply the dedicated SME instrument and will allocate an amount for this.

• (b) Support for research intensive SMEsThe goal is to promote market-oriented innovation of R&D performing SMEs. A specific action shall target research intensive SMEs in high-

t h l t th t h th bilit t i ll l it th j t lttechnology sectors that show the capability to commercially exploit the project results.

• (c) Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEsActivities assisting the implementation and complementing the SME specific measures across Horizon 2020 shall be supported, notably to enhance the innovation capacity of SMEs.


• (d) Supporting market-driven innovationSupporting market-driven innovation to improve the framework conditions for innovation and tackling the specific barriers preventing, in particular, the growth of innovative SMEs.

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FWF Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Förderung

• Stand-alone projects– Accepted continuously, no application deadline– Info: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/stand-alone_projects.html

• Career Development for Female ScientistsEli Ri ht P– Elise-Richter-Program

• Apply from 10-April-12 to 01-June-12• http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/richter.html

– Hertha-Firnberg-Programg g• Apply from 10-April-12 to 01-June-12• info: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/firnberg.html


FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft

• KMU Package (more info on next slide)– Accepted continuously, no application deadlines– Info: http://www.ffg.at/kmu-paket

• Basic program– Accepted continuously, no application deadlines– Info: http://www.ffg.at/projektfoerderung-im-basisprogramm

,http://www.ffg.at/sites/default/files/downloads/page/kostenleitfadenversion122010en_0.pdf

• BRIDGE– Call is open, deadline: 22-March-12– Info: http://www.ffg.at/bridge1

FIT IT ( i f t lid )• FIT-IT (more info on next slide)– No call open– Info: http://www.ffg.at/fit-it

• COIN


• COIN– Apply from 03-Feb-12 to 27-April-12– Info: http://www.ffg.at/coinnet_5.AS

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FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft, KMU Package


FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft, FIT-IT Redesign

Key questions • Which ICT technologies shall be supported

more in Austria to be able to adress societal challenges, e.g climatic change, aging society, scarce resources, global village?

• On a global scale which are the foremost technological challenges in the next 10 years?

• Which general and innovation facilitating conditions are necessary to support thematic focus areas, e.g. HR, research infrastructures, technology transfer, private investment, platforms and networks,?

• How can success be measured in future thematic focus areas. Which key perfomance indicators can be implemented?


TWF Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds

• Career Development for Junior Scientists– Next call: 01-March-12 to 30-April-12– Info: http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/bildung/bildung/hochschulen/wissenschaftsfonds/– Presentation: http://www.uibk.ac.at/projektservice/formulare/twf_info.pdf– ProjectServiceBüro– ProjectServiceBüro

• Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Robert Rebitsch• 9058• [email protected]


FI-WARE

• Open Call 1 for additional beneficiaries• Submission deadline: 25-April-12• Topics:

– Middleware for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange of messages.

– Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.

• Info: https://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/
