FET-Proactive


FET Coordination Action Workshop
Brussels, 26-27 October 2010

This web page will contain the main conclusions of and presentations given at a workshop held in October 2010 in Brussels involving representatives from Coordination Actions (CAs) linked to Proactive Initiatives of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Proactive. Such CAs are linked to specific topics and communities and play a crucial role in supporting communities though structuring them, providing a forum for discussion, identifying new research challenges and setting out research roadmaps and taking joint actions in areas such as education and supporting collaboration with groups outside Europe.

CAs play a key role in the research funded by FET as they are able to provide a structuring effect and community support that creates an added value to the research projects, making the whole greater than the sum of the parts of a Proactive. A number of key issues within research policy, such as identifying research challenges and new research topics, supporting young researchers and creating contacts with high-tech SMEs, are to a large extent dealt with by CAs, making them on the one side a key factor to realize existing objectives, but also an important partner when discussing new directions.

The CAs represented at the meeting were ASSYST, AWARE, COBRA, CSN, ETERNALS,HC2, PERADA, QUIE2T andZEROPOWER, (for descriptions see also Annex I of the Workshop Report here below). Some of these, such as PERADA and ASSYST, have been running for a number of years. Others such as ZEROPOWER ad COBRA are about to start, and some, such as HC2, are new but are building on the experience of an earlier project.

Report on FET Coordination Action Workshop
26-27 October 2010

Presentations given by the participating Coordination Actions

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