Direct contribution to European policies for the knowledge society and the e-Europe Action Plan; medium and long term RTD on the future generation of technologies integrating computers and networks into everyday environment; placing the individual at the centre.

• Towards a global dependability and security framework
• Networked businesses and governments
• eSafety for road and air transports
• eHealth
• Technology-enhanced learning and access to cultural heritage
• Applications and services for the mobile user and worker
• Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment
• GRID-based systems for solving complex problems
• Improving risk management
• eInclusion
• Products and services engineering 2010

• Broadband for all
• Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
• Networked audiovisual systems and home platforms
• Open development platforms for software and services
• Embedded systems

• Pushing the limits of CMOS and preparing for post-CMOS
• Micro- and nano systems
• Advanced displays
• Optical, opto-electronic, and photonic functional components

• Multimodal interfaces
• Semantic-based knowledge systems
• Cognitive systems
  

• Open initiatives
• Proactive initiatives
• Open scheme

The indicative budget allocated to the Thematic Priority Information Society Technologies for the duration of FP6 is EUR 3984 million.