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Joint Technology Initiatives' contributing to research themes of the 'Cooperation' specific programme
Start date:2007-01-01
End date:2013-12-31
Objectives:Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) will move away from the traditional case-by-case public funding of projects approach towards large scale research programmes dedicated to common strategic research targets. This new approach will create critical mass in fields of high industrial and policy significance by developing a coordinated approach to research across Europe. JTIs will strengthen the competitive position of European industry through concentrated efforts and avoiding fragmentation of resources, thus making Europe a more attractive location for inward investment in research.
Moreover, by allowing funding from the Seventh Framework Programme to be combined with other public funding sources, they are expected to have a significant leverage effect on private investment and related economic activity.
Joint Technology Initiatives will lead to the formation of wide partnerships that, in addition to the founding members, will involve a large number of players from industry, the research community and the wider society.
Short title:Joint Technology Initiatives
Programme Acronym:FP7-JTI
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Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
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Programme status:Execution
Duration:84 months
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URL:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/home_en.html#4
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FP7-COOPERATION
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Subdivisions of Programme:The following information was based on the official information available at the time of writing. Priorities and activities may change.
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Joint Technology Initiatives shall mainly result from the work of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) and cover a small number of selected aspects of research in their field.
-Innovative Medicines Initiative
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) aims to increase the competitiveness of the European pharmaceutical sector by providing a coordinated approach to overcome research bottlenecks in the drug development process, reduce drug development time and clinical attrition rate for new medicines. It shall enable faster access to more targeted medicines and an earlier return on research investment, and thus leverage more private investment for even further research.
Pre-competitive research, as defined in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of the Innovative Medicines Initiative, will include:
- development of tools and methods for improved prediction of suitability, safety and efficacy of drugs
- intelligent infrastructures for data integration
- knowledge management through close cooperation between industry, academia and clinic centres.
It will also address education and training gaps, and ensure that Europe has the skills to translate research results into benefits for the patient.
Close cooperation between the European community and industry, as well as other stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies, patients, academia and clinicians among others will be ensured, in addition to the mobilisation of public and private funds.
-Nano-electronics Technologies 2020
Nano-electronics is of high strategic importance for European competitiveness because its products are key enablers for innovation in other sectors. This initiative will address the needs for silicon-based technologies throughout four technology domains:
- shrinking of logic and memory devices to increase performance and reduce costs
- development of value-added functions, such as sensing, actuating and packaging functions, and their embedding with logic and memory to form complex System-on-Chip or System-in-Package solutions
- equipment and materials
- design automation.
- Embedded Computing Systems
Embedded computing systems - the invisible electronics and software that impart intelligence to products and processes - are of importance to the competitiveness of European industrial sectors, such as the automotive industry, avionics, consumer electronics, telecommunications and medical systems.
The Joint Technology Initiative on Embedded Computing Systems will garner and focus research efforts, and leveraging private and public investment to share high risks and maintain a high level of ambition. It will address the design, development and deployment of ubiquitous, interoperable and cost-effective, safe and secure electronic and software systems. This initiative will deliver reference designs that offer standard architectural approaches for given ranges of applications, middleware that enables seamless connectivity and interoperability, integrated design software tools and methods for prototyping.
-Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Initiative
The transition to a hydrogen-oriented economy implies research and capital investment in the creation of new industries, new supply chain structures, infrastructures and human resources.
The Joint Technology Initiative will define and execute a target-oriented European programme of industrial research, technological development and demonstration to deliver robust hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, developed to the point of commercial take-off. The main themes of the research agenda of the Joint Technology Initiative will be:
- fuel cell development for all application sectors and ranges
- sustainable hydrogen supply, including production, distribution, storage and delivery
- integrated, large-scale demonstration of maturing and advanced technologies in a real operational context
- market framework preparatory activities.
This will be implemented on the basis of a sound and continuously developing European technology roadmap and business case, detailed transition strategies and long-term goals and implementation milestones.
-Aeronautics and Air Transport
As an industry of intensive research and technological development, the competitiveness of the European aeronautical and air transport companies in world markets has been built on significant private research investments over many decades. Given the specificities of the sector, new developments often depend on effective cooperation between the public and private sector.
Certain aspects of the Strategic Research Agenda of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) require a Joint Technology Initiative focusing on a coherent and dedicated programme of research on advanced technologies and fostering aspects, such as integration, large-scale validation and demonstration. In the field of Aeronautics and Air Transport, different areas would be addressed, such as environmentally friendly and cost-efficient air transport system, and air traffic management in support of the 'Single European Sky' policy and the 'Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research' (SESAR) initiative.
- Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)
GMES has to respond to the political mandate expressed in the Council Resolution of 13 November 2001 on the launch of the initial period of global monitoring for environment and security. The future of GMES depends on significant long-term investments by both users and infrastructure providers. Independently of the specific application areas of GMES, this will involve a set of accepted standards, validation mechanisms and policies, under a single political responsibility. To that purpose a GMES management structure in the form of a Joint Technology Initiative could be set up to bring together all relevant players with their resources, notably user organisations at both national and European level.
A GMES JTI would also be an effective vehicle to promote the active involvement of the private sector, in that it would act as a coordinating and funding agent for industry (including SMEs) and other potential contractors wishing to contribute to the implementation of GMES through relevant competitive processes.
Council Decision of 19 December 2006 concerning the specific programme 'Cooperation' implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013).
Corrigendum to Council Decision 2006/971/EC of 19 December 2006 concerning the specific programme 'Cooperation' implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Implementation:In each case, a specific structure would be identified for the purpose of implementing the agreed research agenda and bring together the necessary public and private investments and coordination of European efforts.
Joint Technology Initiatives will combine private sector investment with national and European public funding, including grant funding from the Research Framework Programme and loan finance from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
In those JTIs where the Member States are involved as founding members, it is envisaged that the running costs and the costs of research and development (R&D) will be funded by cash contributions from industry and the European Commission, in addition to in kind contributions from involved Member States and Associated Countries. Furthermore, JTIs allow funding from the Seventh Framework Programme to be combined with other public funding sources, including the 'Structural funds' and the 'Risk-Sharing Finance Facility' (RSFF).
The JTI will define a detailed work programme and will directly manage all aspects of the implementation of the JTI programme, including organising calls for proposals and tender, evaluation and selection of the proposals, negotiation and signature of contracts, as well as project monitoring and reporting.
Considering the particular scope and complexity of the Joint Technology Initiatives, strong efforts will be made to ensure their transparent operation and that any allocation of Community funding will take place on the basis of the Framework Programme principles of excellence and competition.
Particular attention will be paid to the overall coherence and coordination between Joint Technology Initiatives and national programmes and projects in the same fields, while respecting their existing implementation procedures and ensuring that the participation in their projects is open to a wide range of participants throughout Europe, and particular small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
General information:Research is becoming increasingly global and competitive. For Europe to stay in the lead requires a concerted effort from its research community. In some areas, traditional instruments of the Framework Programmes, such as individual projects with a small number of partners, are no longer appropriate. Increasing the scale and impact of research investment, improving the level of coordination and integration, in addition to raising the technological content of industrial activity are essential for Europe to be a strong, technologically innovative economy.
The rapid pace of technological change, the rising costs of research, the increasing complexity and interdependence of technologies, as well as the potential economies to be gained by cooperation across Europe are all strong reasons for setting up long-term public-private partnerships.
The Seventh Framework Programme identifies Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) as a means to support trans-national cooperation in industrial research. These initiatives arise primarily from the work of European Technology Platforms, which, in a very limited number of cases, have achieved such an ambitious scale and scope that they will require the mobilisation of high public and private investments, as well as substantial research resources to implement important elements of their Strategic Research Agendas (SRAs).
Joint Technology Initiatives shall be identified in an open and transparent way on the basis of a series of criteria:
- inability of existing instruments to achieve the objective
- scale of the impact on industrial competitiveness and growth
- added-value of European-level intervention
- the degree and clarity of the objective's definition, as well as of the deliverables to be pursued
- strength of the financial and resource commitment from the industry
- importance of the contribution to broader policy objectives, including the benefit to society
- capacity to attract additional support and leverage for current or future industry funding.
Six areas, where the setting up of a JTI could be of particular relevance have been identified in the 'Cooperation' specific programme of the Seventh Framework Programme. These will serve as test cases, on the basis of which, this new mechanism can be assessed.
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Number of Projects:0 (Project information for this programme is currently not available in the CORDIS Projects database)
Subject index:Renewable Sources of Energy, Transport, Innovation, Technology Transfer, Electronics, Microelectronics, Coordination, Cooperation, Scientific Research, Aerospace Technology, Information Processing, Information Systems, Medicine, Health
Organization:Research DG
Legislative Reference:2006/971/EC
Legislative date:2006-12-19
Official Journal Reference:L 400/86
Official Journal Date:2006-12-30
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