Future and Emerging Technologies


Welcome to the FET FLAGSHIP INITIATIVESFET Flagships

FET Flagships are ambitious large-scale, science-driven, research initiatives
that aim to achieve a visionary goal. The scientific advance should provide a
strong and broad basis for future technological innovation and economic exploitation
in a variety of areas, as well as novel benefits for society.

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Background

The Future Emerging Technologies (FET) scheme as part of the DG INFSO ICT programme is in the process of setting up the FET Flagship Initiatives, as laid down in the Communication 'Moving the ICT frontiers – a strategy of research on future and emerging technologies in Europe’ (COM (2009) 184) and endorsed by the 04/12/2009 Conclusions of the Competitiveness Council of the European Union.

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As one of the key actions, these communications envisage the launch of at least two of these initiatives by 2013

The FET Flagship Initiatives are:

  • proposed to be visionary research initiatives building on areas of established European excellence and oriented towards a unifying goal via a multidisciplinary approach nucleated from ICT future and emerging technologies
  • to generate waves of technological innovation and economic exploitation, ideally in a variety of areas and sectors, and would carry an important societal impact
  • envisioned to run for at least 10 years, on a budget in the range of 100 M€ Euros per year and per initiative
  • of such magnitude that they can only be realised through a federated effort of the different EC programmes,along with Member States, funding agencies, and where appropriate, global partners and industry

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FET Flagships - Roadmap towards 2013

2009/04

EC Communication ‘Moving the ICT frontiers’ ( 1.630 KB)

2009/07

ISTAG report on FET Flagships ( 1.720 KB)

2009/11 Setup of the European Commission's Interservice Group

2009/12

Endorsement of FET Flagship Initiatives by the Competitiveness Council of the European Union; ( 160 KB) Opening of online consultation for ideas

2010/01

Start of FET Flagship study ( 1623kb) to explore options for legal and operational frameworks

Early 2010

Open consultation with the scientific community on initial ideas, including workshop event on 22 January 2010

2010

Setup of FET Flagship Science Forum and the Member States Working Group

2010/06

Science & Policy Forum on FET Flagships

2010/07

Launch of a competitive Call to support comprehensive FET-F Pilots (5-6 preparatory actions, each focusing on a Flagship challenge)

2010/09 FET Proactive info day on Pilot Flagships and other FET actions (30 September 2010)

2010-2011

Preparation of instrumental framework

2011

Implementation of FET Flagship Pilots: design and establishment of feasibility for high-potential candidates

2011/05/4-6

Official launch of the FET Flagship Pilots at fet11:The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition - under the auspices of the Hungarian presidency in Budapest

2012

Selection of FET Flagships

2013

Launch of first FET Flagships

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