ARTEMIS and ENIAC Information Day

The EU has agreed the launch of two major ICT initiatives, the ARTEMIS and ENIAC Joint Technology Initiatives. ARTEMIS is concerned with maintaining European strengths in the area of embedded computing systems; ENIAC is concerned with all Nano-electronics technology (including power devices, RF, MEMS, sensors, materials, equipment). The overall budget of the ARTEMIS initiative is €2.5 billion over seven years with around 55% coming from industry. In short, each € contributed by the Commission will leverage 6 € of research effort. Overall, the Commission is expecting to contribute €410 million during the seven years, starting with €41.5 million in 2008. For ENIAC the overall budget is close to 3 billion € over seven years and the Commission is expecting to contribute €440 million during the seven years, starting
with €41.5 million in 2008.

It is expected that the first Call for proposals for both initiatives will be launched in April 2008 and in order to inform the research communities about the possibilities in these 2 Calls the EPISTEP ETI Project is hosting a free information day in Brussels on on Friday 4th April 2008.