ICT in FP7 at a glance

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

Injecting over €9bn to boost European information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Information technology and telecommunications
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Information technology
• Innovation
• Informatique
• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 22
• Langue: Latin

Extrait

ICT in FP At A Glance Injecting over bn to boost European Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are critical to creating jobs and improving quality of life across Europe.

Although the ICT sector is itself worth - of the EU’s GDP, their importance goes well beyond that - ICTs are also vital to: • meeting the globalization challenge by boosting innovation, creativity and competitiveness throughout the economy; • delivering cutting-edge science in all scientic and technological areas; • making Europe’s large public sector more ecient, and modernising sectors ranging from education to energy; • tackling social challenges, improving quality of life and meeting the challenge of an ageing society. Europe must therefore master these technologies to remain competitive and safeguard its quality of life, which

is why ICT research is one of the key themes of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP) for Research and Technological Development, which will fund research across Europe from - (see box).

Tackling the Challenges EU research funding is deliberately focused on seven key Research Challenges to ensure Europe becomes a world leader in ICTs.

ree Challenges aim at industrial leadership in key ICT sectors, while four are driven by socio-economic targets. Within each Challenge, the Programme will fund an ar- ray of collaborative research projects, each bringing to- gether public and private organisations across Europe to help the EU pool its scientic, industrial, nancial and human resources.

WHAT IS FP? FP, the EU's latest research programme, is divided into four specic programmes:

Cooperation (.bn):building European leadership in ten key emes through funding research carried out by organisations working together across European national borders; •e ICT element: with a budget of .bn, the ICT eme is the largest; Capacities (.bn):building world-class infrastructure for European researchers; •e ICT element: the e-Infrastructures strand has a budget of ~m; Ideas (.bn):an autonomous European Research Council to reinforce European science; People (.bn):strengthening the human potential of European research.

Both Ideas and People Programmes will cover all scientic and technological research, and so will also fund ICT-related research.

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