Future and Emerging Technologies: FET Open Scheme: Challenging Current Thinking and Attracting Future Potential

Future and Emerging Technologies
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) fosters exploratory research to open up new avenues across the full breadth of future information and communication technologies. It supports new and alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or nonconventional nature. FET aims to go beyond the conventional boundaries of ICT and ventures into uncharted areas, often inspired by and in close collaboration with other scientific disciplines. Radical breakthroughs in ICT increasingly rely on deep synergies with other disciplines (for instance, biology, chemistry, nanoscience, neuro- and cognitive science, ethology, social science, economics) and with the arts and humanities. This requires new attitudes and novel collaborations between a broad diversity of actors in research. In this respect, FET is the home for transformative research that can lead not only to a range of exceptional and unprecedented outcomes in science and technology, but can also create new practices, paradigms and reshape disciplines. FET Open scheme: challenging current thinking and attracting future potential FET-Open is a light, topic-agnostic and deadline free scheme specifically designed to be open and continuously responsive to novel and fragile ideas that challenge current thinking, whenever they arise and wherever they come from. It aims at foundational breakthroughs that can open radically new directions for information and communication technologies in the future. FET-Open also aims to increase the role of young researchers and high-tech research intensive SMEs in its cooperative research to further enhance their disruptive innovation potential and to unlock longer-term scientific and industrial leadership. Because of its foundational nature, FET research is especially well placed for global collaboration. This work programme provides opportunities to extend on-going FET projects 1 through new collaboration components (top up) involving the best researchers worldwide, so as to create global interest and raise the level of ambition around research avenues incepted within FET. FET Proactive scheme: tackling targeted transformative research FET Proactive supports foundational, high-risk research, supporting the design and development of emerging research avenues with the aim of creating novel areas and themes and bringing together emerging communities. In each of these high-risk and high-potential, innovative themes a number of projects are supported, in combination with community building actions that foster activities such as joint events, development of new curricula and research roadmaps. Such clusters of projects spearhead transformative research and enhance Europe's innovation potential around a number of fundamental long-term challenges in ICT, building towards new topics for industrial research agendas. FET Flagship Initiatives
Ongoing projects selected under any of the FET objectives of the FP7 ICT Work programmes.
Complementing these two schemes, FET Flagship Initiatives are visionary, sciencedriven, goal-oriented, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives nucleated from research on ICT future and emerging technologies. They are envisioned to be long term programmes on a scale much beyond existing initiatives. Activities in this work programme build on earlier actions and will enable the selection of two such initiatives in 2013. FET Open scheme Radically new ideas can come anytime, from anybody and from anywhere. FET-Open is specifically designed to be open and responsive to such fresh thinking. It aims to give promising but still fragile ideas the opportunity to mature into a credible and well-founded new direction of research. What is common to all objectives under FET-Open is that they seek proposals on radically new concepts and visions of the nature and use of information and information technologies, grounded in scientifically plausible and often interdisciplinary ideas on how to achieve them. In spite of the high risk of failure, FETOpen projects can be the first step on the way towards future European scientific and industrial leadership in areas that today simply do not exist yet. In this work programme, the FET-Open scheme features the following objectives: Objective ICT-2013.9.1: Challenging current Thinking Objective ICT-2013.9.2: High-Tech Research Intensive SMEs in FET research Objective ICT-2013.9.3: FET Young Explorers Objective ICT-2013.9.4: International cooperation on FET research Objective ICT-2013.9.5: FET-Open Xtrack
All these objectives are continuously open for submission. The FET-Open Objective ICT-2013.9.5 trials a new and lighter submission process, aims at a faster evaluation and a simpler project implementation. This pilot bridges to the implementation of the FET Open Scheme in Horizon2020, from 2014 onwards. All FET-Open objectives call for STREPs 2 , but with eligibility criteria that are specific to each objective. CSAs are accepted only under objective 2013.9.1. They are submitted directly as full proposals and are evaluated in one step.
With the exception of Objective ICT-2013.9.4 on International cooperation on FET research.

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