ICT Challenge 1: Budget
ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective 2007.1.1 - The Network of the Future
Outcome
- Ubiquitous network infrastructures and architectures
- Very high capacity networks, with end to end broadband capability
- Scalable networks, supporting orders of magnitudes higher number of connected devices
- Optimised control, management and flexibility of the future network infrastructure with self configuration capabilities
- Technologies and systems architectures for the Future Internet
Impact
- Global standards
- Reinforced European industrial leadership in wired and wireless networks
- New industrial/service opportunities in Europe
- Lower capital expenditures and lower operational expenditures
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 180 | 14 | 6 |
WP2007/08 – Call 1
Contact: Rainer Zimmermann
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Objective 2007.1.2 - Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering
Outcome
- Service architectures, platforms, technologies, methods and tools
- Service/software engineering approaches
- Strategies and technologies enabling mastery of complexity, dependability and behavioural stability
- Virtualisation tools, system software, middleware and network-centric operating systems
Impact
- Allowing the creation of dynamic services with guaranteed properties
- Increased efficiency and productivity in software development
- New opportunities, notably for SMEs, through open and standard platforms and interfaces
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 108 | 10 | 2 |
WP2007/08 – Call 1
Contact: Michel Lacroix
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Objective 2007.1.3 - ICT in support of the networked enterprise
Outcome
- Generic integrated solutions for inter-enterprise interoperability and collaboration in the context of the networked enterprise
- Architectures and platforms for the integrated enterprise supporting massively distributed networked devices
- Tools and technologies that enable intra-enterprise collaboration
Impact
- Improving the competitiveness of enterprises in Europe
- Reinforcing Europe’s technology and industry strengths in application and business-specific software, service and applications development
- Support to ICT pervasiveness in downstream economic sectors hence boosting the ICT based productivity gains
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 29 | Not called for | 1 |
WP2007/08 – Call 1
Contact: Gerald Santucci
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Objective 2007.1.4 - Secure, dependable and trusted Infrastructures
Outcome
- Security and resilience in network infrastructures
- Security and trust in dynamic and reconfigurable service architectures
- Trusted computing infrastructures
- Identity management and privacy enhancing tools
- Research roadmaps, metrics and benchmarks
Impact
- ICT users empowered to handle their digital identity and personal data and to protect their privacy
- A strong and competitive ICT security industry in Europe
- Substantially improved security and dependability of networks and service infrastructures
- Wider use of metrics, standards, evaluation and certification methods and best practices
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 80 | 6 | 4 |
WP2007/08 – Call 1
Contact: Jacques Bus
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Objective 2007.1.5 - Networked Media
Outcome
- Interoperable multimedia network and service infrastructures
- User centric content management and control
- End-to-end content delivery and retrieval systems
- Road-mapping and conference support
Impact
- World leadership in a new generation of media technologies
- New and sustainable business market opportunities based on converged business models between content, telecom, broadcast and consumer electronics industries
- Widespread adoption of new digital media consumption and production patterns
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 76 | 7 | 2 |
WP2007/08 – Call 1
Contact: Luis Rodriguez Roselló
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Objective 2007.1.6 - New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
Outcome
- Advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols, and validation of large scale testing environments
- Interconnected testbeds
Impact
- Strengthened European position in the development of the Future Internet
- Wider take-up of technological developments in networks and service infrastructure by validation of technological and service choices
- Global consensus towards standards and strengthened international co-operation through interconnected testbeds
- Higher confidence in the secure use of the Internet
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 36 | 3 | 1 |
WP2007/08 – Call 2
Contact: Max Lemke
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Objective 2007.1.7 - Critical Infrastructure Protection
Joint call between the ICT and the Security Theme
Outcome
- Understanding and managing the interactions and complexity of independent critical infrastructures, mastering their vulnerabilities
- Designing and developing secure and resilient networked and distributed information and process control systems
Impact
- Improvement in the security, performance, dependability and resilience of complex and interdependent critical infrastructures
- Reinforce European industry’s potential to create important market opportunities and establish leadership
- Contribute to establishing, strengthening and preserving trust in the use of technologies for the protection of critical infrastructures
- A more effective protection through enhanced co-operation, coordination and focus across Europe
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
| Instrument | Collaborative Projects | Network of Excellence | Coordination & Support Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative Funding (M€) | 18 | Not called for | 2 |
WP2007/08 – Call 2
Contact: Jacques Bus
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