På grunn av tekniske problemer med EPSS-serveren umiddelbart før søknadsfristen for ICT Call 7 gikk ut har Kommisjonen bestemt at søkndsfristen utsettes til

 Fredag, 21. Januar, kl.17:00

Her er den offisielle meldingen fra Kommisjonen:

"Dear proposal coordinator,

Following problems which some proposers had in logging into the submission system in the last hours of the calls, the Commission services have decided to re-open ICT Call 7 and the ICT-Brazil call for the submission of proposals. The calls are open again now, they will close at 17h00 Brussels time on Friday 21 January.

If you already submitted the final version of your proposal there is no need to resubmit it; the version you submitted will be carried forward into the evaluation process.

If however you have an updated version of your proposal or other corrections to make, or if you tried to submit a proposal and were unsuccessful, now is the occasion to do this.

Submit your proposal now. Do not wait until the last hours !

Only the coordinator is authorised to submit the proposal, only the coordinator should be logged in when the submission attempt is made.

If you have problems, call the EPSS helpdesk +32 2 233 3760"

Under forrige ukes ict2010-konferanse ble arbeidsprogrammet for 2010-2011 offisielt lansert. Med dette er nå også utlysning nr. 7 publisert. Utlysningen har et totalt budsjett på over 780 millioner EURO. Du finner Kommisjonens lyark om de ulike topics i Call 7 på denne bloggen. Offisiell dokumentasjon for ICT Call 7 ligger nå ute på CORDIS.

Finanskrisen har uten tvil satt sitt preg på utviklingen i FP7. Nye instrumenter, PPPene, har blitt implementert for å sikre at FoU-aktivitetene skal bidra til økt verdiskapning for europeisk industri. Men også ellers i ICT-programmet er fokus på Impact blitt tydeligere. Dette manifesterer seg i en ny prioritering av evalueringskriteriene ved rangering av søknader med lik poengsum etter evalueringen. Mens det tidligere var den vitenskaplige delen av søknaden (S&T) som ble sett på først i en slik rangeringsprosess er det nå Impact, som avgjør ved likt antall poeng. Denne endringen trer i kraft med det nye arbeidsprogrammet 2011-2012.

Om ikke annet, så er dette enda en grunn til å gjøre en bra jobb med impact-seksjonen under søknadsutformingen!

Her er den offisielle informasjonen fra Kommisjonen:

Proposals with tied scores

In the previous framework programmes, when there were above threshold proposals in a panel with the same overall score, the experts were always required to discuss them all and impose a ranking between them. This could often be very time-consuming, and while it was obviously necessary for high-scoring proposals, the process was plainly of little value for proposals far down the list with no real chance of funding. With this in mind, at the beginning of FP7 we introduced a more formal rule for sorting groups of proposals all with the same score. First we ask the experts to take into consideration the element of coverage; a proposal which is doing something not already covered by any higher-scoring proposal goes to the top of its group.

Then the rest of the ranking is based on the proposals' scores on the individual criteria, and here we have introduced a change with our new Workprogramme 2011-12. Previously we used criterion 1 Scientific and/or technological excellence as the first decision-maker. However with the new Workprogramme and the strong emphasis from the Commission on supporting Europe's economic recovery, we have decided to switch to criterion 3 Impact as the criterion to look at first when sorting proposals with equal overall scores.

If two proposals have the same score on Impact, then the experts will look at their S&T excellence score to distinguish them. Only if proposals have identical scores on both criterion 3 and criterion 1 will the experts then be required to discuss and impose a ranking based on other considerations which they find relevant to research in the objective.

FELIX_KD_TCL_final.ppt (10,12 mb)

Forskningsrådet inviterer til en nasjonal informasjonsdag om høstens utlysninger i FP7 på FELIX konferansesenter, Oslo, 30. august. På arrangementet får du en generell oversikt over det 7. rammeprogrammet, i tillegg vil det gis informasjon om aktuelle utlysninger innen de ulike temaene.

 Program og påmeldingslink finner du her.

I tillegg vil det arrangeres tilsvarende møter i Bergen (7. september) og Trondheim (20. september).

Utformingen av ICT-arbeidsprogrammet 2011-2012 er i ferd med å avsluttes. Programmet vil iverksette tre større utlysninger (ICT Calls 7, 8 og 9) med første utlysning høsten 2010.

Søknadsfrist for ICT Call 7: 18. januar 2011
Søknadsfrist for PPP-utlysningene: 02. desember 2010

Her kommer Kommisjonens presentasjoner av de utlyste emnene i sommerens/høstens utlysninger:

Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Networks and Service Infrastructure

Obj1.3.ppt (313,50 kb)

Obj1.5.ppt (3,88 mb)

Obj1.6.ppt (830,00 kb)

Obj1.7_1.8_1.9_1.10.ppt (1,65 mb)

Challenge 2: Cognitive Systems and Robotics

Obj2.1.ppt (234,50 kb)

Challenge 3: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems

Obj3.2.ppt (732,50 kb)

Obj3.3.pdf (1,14 mb)

Obj3.4.ppt (321,50 kb)

Obj3.5.ppt (1,20 mb)

Obj3.6.ppt (1,18 mb)

Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages

Obj4.2.ppt (390,50 kb)

Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance

Obj5.1.ppt (313,00 kb)

Obj5.2.ppt (1,45 mb)

Obj5.3.ppt (235,50 kb)

Obj5.4.ppt (1,95 mb)

Obj5.5.ppt (1,75 mb)

Obj5.6.ppt (1,22 mb)

Challenge 6: ICT for a Low Carbon Economy

Obj6.2 EEB.ppt (885,00 kb)

Obj6.6.ppt (2,29 mb)

Green Cars.pdf (1,21 mb)

Challenge 7: ICT for the Enterprise and Manufacturing

FoF.ppt (1,24 mb)

Challenge 9: Future and Emerging Technologies

Obj9.1_9.4.ppt (1,26 mb)

Obj9.5_9.12.ppt (1,88 mb)

Obj9.13.ppt (343,00 kb)

10: International Cooperation

EU-BRAZIL.ppt (251,00 kb)

EU-RUSSIA.ppt (394,00 kb)

Obj10.3.ppt (192,50 kb)

11: Horizontal Actions

Obj11.1.ppt (286,00 kb)

Obj11.3.ppt (216,00 kb)

En viktig del av Kommisjonens Future Internet PPP består i å definere ulike bruksscenarier for å verifisere teknologien som skal utvikles. For dette formålet skal det etableres opptil åtte IP-prosjekter, som vil samarbeide tett med Core-Platform-prosjektet. Bruksscenariene skal levere premissene og kravene for utviklingen av platformen.

Kommisjonen arrangerer en workshop for alle som er interessert i å bidra til utformingen av bruksscenarier. Formålet med arrangementet er å skape en balanse mellom teknologileverandørenes "technology push" og sluttbrukernes "application pull".

Tid: 21.-22. juni 2010
Sted: Hotel Husa President Park, Brussel

Mer informasjon finner du på FI-initiativets nettside om FI-PPP Usage Area Workshop

NB: Det er begrenset kapasitet på arrangementet (200 plasser) og interesserte miljø bes om å sende inn et kort "position paper" innen 2. juni som besvarer følgende fem spørsmål: 

(1)    What use case and scenario in your area would you consider the most appropriate and representative one for large-scale experimentation with the Future Internet platform to be built starting from 2013 (please refer to the documents referred to on the above websites for inspiration)?

(2)    What innovative Internet functionality and technologies would you consider important for your suggested use case and scenario (e.g. context awareness, sensor networks, advanced real time processing capabilities handling huge volume of data, ad hoc service composition and mash-up, managed broadband connectivity and services, embedded media support for interfaces easing the interpretation of processed contextual data, etc.)?   

(3)    Which of the identified functionalities would you expect the Future Internet core technology platform to deliver to support your and other usage area scenarios?

(4)    What kind of experimentation environment would you consider necessary for broad large scale testing of the platform to be developed in your use area? What would be needed to experiment new services and applications cutting across use areas (services and application mash-up) and building a new services and application ecosystem around the prototype implementations of the platform?

(5)    How do you see the potential role of your organisation in the FI-PPP, in the context of Usage areas taking a prominent role in the Initiative, to ensure an appropriate application driven approach?