Project description Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives Show the project objective Hide the project objective COBRA is a coordination action to help organize the international CHEM-IT community towards the next major science and technology revolution, involving the integration of information processing with production during deployment. The industrial revolution mechanized production with factories, and the information revolution mechanized information processing with computers. The next large-scale technological revolution most likely involves their integration and its decentralization, as found so far only in living systems and it is now clear that significant scientific and technical progress towards this integration is imminent. The EC-sponsored CHEM-IT projects are spearheading the development and exploration of the first simple systems integrating production and information processing. This is done at the nano-bio-info interface, involving cellular engineering, protocells, artificial neurons and programmable information chemistry. At the centre of this work is a desire to create ICT-based systems with living and intelligent desirable properties that current technologies lack (such as robustness, autonomy, self-repair, adaptation, learning and local intelligence, as well as self-replication and evolution). The potential long-term impact of this emerging enabling technology will be considerable, as even minor progress on making technology more life-like and intelligent can improve processes in all sectors of society. CHEM-IT addresses issues of sustainability in production and deployment, and the information explosion of ubiquitous nanoscale systems. The proposed project on the coordination of biological and chemical IT research activities (COBRA) seeks to engage the European research community to construct the first roadmap for how best to develop ICT-based integrated information processing and production technology. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutionsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2009.8.9 - Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2009-6 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Address Oxford road all saints building M15 6BH Manchester United Kingdom See on map Region North West (England) Greater Manchester Manchester Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Martyn Amos (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 112 009,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA Germany EU contribution € 111 269,00 Address Fürstengraben 1 07743 Jena See on map Region Thüringen Thüringen Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Peter Dittrich (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM Germany EU contribution € 125 200,00 Address Universitaetsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Bochum, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact John McCaskill (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 89 077,00 Address Campusvej 55 5230 Odense m See on map Region Danmark Syddanmark Fyn Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lone Ladegaard Laursen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA Italy EU contribution € 47 080,00 Address Dorsoduro 3246 30123 Venezia See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Venezia Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Irene Poli (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
