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The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator: Creating Socially Interactive Information Technologies for a Sustainable Future
Start date:2011-05-01
End date:2012-04-30
Project Acronym:FUTURICT
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON | |
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Name:Martin |
European Research and Development Office Torrington Place, 1-19 WC1E 7HB LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-2031083098 | |
| Fax:+44-2078132849 | |
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Description
Objective:
The ultimate goal of the FuturICT Flagship is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience. Revealing the hidden laws and processes underlying societies constitutes the most pressing scientific grand challenge of our century and is equally important for the development of novel robust, trustworthy and adaptive information and communication technologies (ICT), based on socially inspired paradigms.
Integrating ICT, Complexity Science and the Social Sciences will unleash a paradigm shift, facilitating a symbiotic co-evolution of ICT and society. Data from our complex globe-spanning ICT system will be leveraged to develop models of techno-socio-economic systems. In turn, insight from these models will inform the development of a new generation of socially adaptive, self-organised ICT systems.
FuturICT as a whole will act as a Knowledge Accelerator, turning massive data into knowledge and technological progress. In this way, FuturICT will create the scientific methods and ICT platforms needed to address planetary-scale challenges and opportunities in the 21st century. Specifically, FuturICT will build a sophisticated simulation, visualization and participation platform, known as the Living Earth Platform. This platform will power Crisis Observatories, to detect and mitigate crises, and Participatory Platforms, to support decision-making for policy-makers and citizens.
In this Coordination Action, we propose activities to develop our scientific vision and roadmap, secure stakeholder commitment, establish the FuturICT legal and operational infrastructure, and build on our remarkable success in uniting previously fragmented research communities. Through these activities, the Coordination Action will allow Europe to grasp this unique opportunity for groundbreaking progress in science and ICT, with great impacts for society, governance and industry by launching the FuturICT Flagship in 2013.
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Project Details
Start date:2011-05-01
End date:2012-04-30
Duration:12 months
Project Reference:284709
Project cost:2088405 EURO
Project Funding:1900000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-ICT
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:FET Flagship Initiative Preparatory Actions
Contract type:Coordination and support actions
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Subject index:Innovation, Technology Transfer
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITÄT PASSAU | |
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Name:Sabine |
ZENTRALE UNIVERSITÄTSVERWALTUNG Innstrasse 94032 PASSAU DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN NIEDERBAYERN Passau, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-8515091110 | |
| Fax:+49-8515091102 | |
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| Organization name:EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH | |
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Name:Dirk |
Raemistrasse ZUERICH SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:ZÜRICH |
| Tel:+41-446328880 | |
| Fax:+41-446321767 | |
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| URL:http://www.ethz.ch | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | |
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Name:David |
OFFICE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION Western Road CORK ÉIRE/IRELAND Region:ÉIRE/IRELAND South-West (IRL) |
| Tel:+353-214205121 | |
| Fax:+353-214903506 | |
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| Organization name:THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | |
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Name:Stephen |
RESEARCH SERVICES University Offices, Wellington Square OX1 2JD OXFORD UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE Oxfordshire |
| Tel:+44-1865289800 | |
| Fax:+44-1865289801 | |
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| Organization name:CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | |
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Name:Rosaria |
INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES - LABORATORY PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 00185 ROMA ITALIA Region:LAZIO Roma |
| Tel:+39-0644362370 | |
| Fax:+39-0644595243 | |
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Record control number:99187
