HORIZON2020 for ICT
- HORIZON brings together three separate programmes/initiatives (FP7, CIP, EIT)
- It includes all forms of innovation, from research to retail.
- It focuses of societal challenges facing the EU society
- Simplified access and procedures are introduced
Goals
- Growth, Jobs & Competitiveness
- Better articulation of research and innovation
- Seamless funding from idea to market
The ICT theme will be part of the three pilars:
1) ICT topics in Industrial leadership:
- A new generation of components and systems
- Advanced Computing
- Future Internet
- Content technologies and information management
- Robotics
- Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics
- Factories of the future
- ICT Cross-Cutting Activities
- Horizontal ICT Innovation actions
2) ICT in Societal challenges:
- Health
- Food
- Energy
- Transport
- Climate
- Inclusive societies
- Security
3 ICT in Excellence Science:
- FET
- e-Infrastructures
