Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Work Programme in H2020

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1 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Work Programme in H Dr Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos Future and Emerging Technologies DG CONNECT European Commission

2 Overview FET mission and funding scheme FET-Open: fostering novel ideas FET-Proactive - nurturing emerging themes and communities FET-Proactive: High-Performance Computing FET Flagships - tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges

3 Overview Focus of this talk FET mission and funding scheme FET-Open: fostering novel ideas FET-Proactive - nurturing emerging themes and communities FET-Proactive: High-Performance Computing FET Flagships - tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges

4 FET mission To turn Europe's excellent science base into a competitive advantage by uncovering radically new technological possibilities To turn Europe into the best place for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies New Knowledge New technologies and their applications

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6 About FET: from FP7 to H2020 Different initiatives with shared values Proactive top-down foundational across disciplines long-term visionary technological innovation high risk collaborative OPEN bottom-up Flagships large scale

7 FET funding schemes Open, light and agile Roadmap based research FET-Open FET Proactive FET Flagships Early Ideas Individual research projects Exploration and Incubation Topical clusters of research projects Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives Common research agendas Exploring Developing Addressing novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

8 the EU framework programme for research and innovation

9 A stronger, clearer focus H2020 Budget: 77B (current prices) Excellent Science 24,4 B Industrial Leadership 17B Societal Challenges 29,6 B OTHERS: 5,8B (Spreading excellence & widening participation, Science & Society, JRC, EIT)

10 H2020 covers the full innovation chain Excellent science Societal challenges Industrial leadership Basic Demonstration Research Technology R&D Large scale validation Prototyping Pilots Market uptake

11 FET in Horizon 2020 Excellent Science pillar in H2020 European Research Council (13B ) Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (6,1B ) Future and Emerging Technologies Research infrastructures programme (2,4B ) FET: 2,7 B "Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research in order to extend Europe s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities." HORIZON THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ( ) Pathfinding Europe's technological future

12 FET: From FP7 to H2020 A new level of ambition - New mandate, going beyond ICT - Pathfinding Europe s technological future - Bootstrapping new R&I eco-systems - New large-scale partnering initiatives complementing small and medium scale activities - FET Flagships - High-Performance Computing (PPP) - A new actor in the S&T funding landscape - A much larger intervention budget

13 FET-Open: fostering novel ideas

14 FET Open in WP Call FET-Open : novel ideas for radically new technologies 'Open is open' All technologies, no thematic restriction FET gatekeepers define the kind of research that FET is looking for Scope defined by the 6 gatekeepers Bottom-up, but targeted - not blue sky research Collaborative research Long-term vision Total budget: 160M in Instrument Research and Innovation Action - 154M Coordination and Support actions (CSA) 6M Interdisciplinary Novelty FET S&T targeted High-Risk Foundational

15 FET-Open Gatekeepers Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technologyenabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project. Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated. Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental refinement of existing ones. High-risk: the potential of a new technological direction depends on a whole range of factors that cannot be apprehended from a single disciplinary viewpoint. This inherent high-risk has to be countered by a strongly interdisciplinary research approach, where needed expanding well beyond the strictly technological realm. Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations must go beyond current mainstream collaboration configurations in joint S&T research, and must aim to advance different scientific and technological disciplines together and in synergy towards a breakthrough.

16 FET Open in WP FETOPEN 1: FET-Open research projects Specific challenge Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is necessary for the successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well beyond the strictly technological disciplines. Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and innovation, such as women, young researchers and high-tech SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific and industrial leaders of the future. Project size: 2 to 4M 1 step submission and evaluation of a 16 pages proposal Proposals are not anonymous Budget: 154M Deadlines 30/09/ /03/ /09/2015 Budget 77 M 38,5 M 38,5M 16

17 FET Open in WP FETOPEN 2: Coordination and Support Actions 2014 Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come. Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics: FET Observatory: identifying new opportunities and directions for FET research FET Communication: communicating on FET projects and activities FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities FET Conference: supporting the organisation of the third FET Conference FET Prizes: identifying suitable areas for prizes and competitions in FET FET Impact: Assessing the impacts of the FET programme Project size: 0,3 to 0,5M per topic, up to 1M for FET Conference Budget & deadline: 3M -> Deadline: 30/9/2014 at 17:00:00, Brussels time 17

18 FET Open in WP FETOPEN 3 : Coordination and Support Activities 2015 Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come. Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics: FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities FET Take-Up: actions for stimulating take-up of FET research results towards impact and innovation Project size: 0,3 to 0,5M per topic Budget & Deadline: 1,5M -> Deadline: 31/3/2015 1,5M -> Deadline: 29/9/

19 FET-Open Specific submission & evaluation procedure! 19 19

20 FET-Open call Call FET- Open Continuously open Cut-off date every 6 months March & Sept, starting as of Sept 30, 2014 Submission & Evaluation 1 step submission 1 stage evaluation based on FET specific evaluation criteria High quality peer review 4 experts per proposals to best address multi-disciplinary nature of FET Grant Grant based on proposal 'as-is' -> No negotiation All information needed has to be in the proposal! Time to contract of max. 8 months from cut-off date ESR within 5 months, contracts within 3 extra months! 20

21 FET-Open RIA One step submission and evaluation Part A: Administrative part of the proposal Part B : Scientific part of the proposal 16 pages core proposal Cover page Section 1: S&T Excellence Section 2: Impact Section 3: Implementation Additional information Section 4: Members of the consortium E.g. legal entity, CV, subcontract, third party Section 5: Ethics and Security Ethics self-assessment & supporting documents Security checklist Cover page strictly limited to 1 page! Section 1,2 & 3 are strictly limited to 15 pages! Section 4 & 5 are not covered by the page limit. 21

22 FET-Open CSA One step submission and evaluation Part A: Administrative part of the proposal Part B : Scientific part of the proposal 50 pages core proposal Cover page Section 1: S&T Excellence Section 2: Impact Section 3: Implementation Additional information Section 4: Members of the consortium E.g. legal entity, CV, subcontract, third party Section 5: Ethics and Security Ethics self-assessment & supporting documents Security checklist Cover page strictly limited to 1 page! Section 1,2 & 3 are limited to 50 pages Section 4 & 5 are not covered by the page limit. 22

23 FET-Open Evaluation process Remote phase Panel in Brussels Individual Evaluation Report 1 Entire process monitored by independent experts Individual Evaluation Report 2 Proposal Individual 3 Evaluation Report Draft CR ESR Ranking Step 1: - Eligibility check - Assignment of experts Step 2: IER - Experts prepare Individual Evaluation Report (IER) Individual Evaluation Report 4 Step 3: - EC Quality check of IER Step 4: Draft CR - Collation of 4 IER comments per criteria - median score per criteria Step 5: Panel finalise CR: - Check IER comments - Add panel comments - Decide on final score Step 6: Ranking on: - Total score - If tied: topic overlap -> S&T score -> Impact score -> SME budget -> gender balance

24 FET-Open Final CR=> Evaluation Summary Report Panel Comment S&T Excellence: score /5 - Expert 1 comments - Expert 2 comments - Expert 3 comments - Expert 4 comments Impact: score /5 - Expert 1 comments - Expert 2 comments - Expert 3 comments - Expert 4 comments Implementation: score /5 - Expert 1 comments - Expert 2 comments - Expert 3 comments - Expert 4 comments Remarks Total weighted score /5 24

25 Specific evaluation criteria (FET-Open Research project) FET-Open Excellence Impact Implementation Clarity of targeted breakthrough and its specific science and technology contributions towards a long-term vision. Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character. Range and added value from interdisciplinarity. Appropriateness of the research methods. Threshold: 4/5 Weight: 25 60% Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to its transformational impact on technology and/or society. Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology and/or society. Impact from empowerment of new and high potential actors towards future technological leadership. Threshold: 3,5/5 Weight: 20% Quality of the workplan and clarity of intermediate targets. Relevant expertise in the consortium. Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (personmonths, equipment, budget). Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 20%

26 Specific evaluation criteria (FET-Open CSA) FET-Open Excellence Impact Implementation Clarity of objectives Contribution to the coordination and/or support of high-risk and high-impact research for new or emerging areas or horizontally Appropriateness of the coordination and/or support activities Transformational impact on the communities and/or practices for high-risk and high-impact research Appropriateness of measures for spreading excellence, use of results, and dissemination of knowledge, including engagement with stakeholders Quality of work plan and management Relevant expertise in the consortium Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (personmonths, equipment, budget). Threshold: 3/5 26 Weight: 40% Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 40% Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 20%

27 FET-Proactive - nurturing emerging themes and communities 27

28 Call FET Proactive emerging themes and communities Three topics : Global Systems Science (GSS) Knowing, doing and being: cognition beyond problem solving Quantum simulation Total budget: 35M in WP Call closed in April

29 FET-Proactive: High-Performance Computing

30 Key EU developments HPC Communication from the EC "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a global race" (2012) Council Conclusions on High-Performance Computing (Competitiveness Council 2013) Establishment of the European Technology Platform on High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC ) and Strategic Research Agenda on HPC (2013) Horizon 2020 programme adopted (end of 2013) Public-Private Partnership with ETP4HPC (1st January 2014)

31 An integrated HPC approach in H2020 HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) (b) (c) Computer Science: towards exascale HPC; A special FET initiative focussing on the next generations of exascale computing as a key horizontal enabler for advanced modelling, simulation and big-data applications [HPC in FET] achieving excellence in HPC applications; Centres of Excellence for scientific/industrial HPC applications in (new) domains that are most important for Europe [e-infrastructures] providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; PRACE - world-class HPC infrastructure for the best research [e-infrastructures] complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC

32 Interrelation between the three elements "Excellent Science" part of H2020 Scope of the PPP Access to best HPC for industry and academia (PRACE) specifications of exascale prototypes technological options for future systems FET/HPC: EU development of Exascale technologies Collaboration of HPC Centres and application CoEs provision of HPC capabilities and expertise Excellence in HPC applications (Centres of Excellence) identify applications for codesign of exascale systems Innovative methods and algorithms for extreme parallelism of traditional/emerging applications

33 Performance (flops) exa High Performance Computing peta tera Higher performance of supercomputers by radically rethinking the architecture over and over again parallel processing massive parallelism giga integrated circuits mega kilo vacuum tubes transistors liquid cooling Software innovation over time contributed equally to increased performance

34 HPC in FET: Critical technologies Health, demographic change and well-being (Personalised medicine, pharma/bio-medical simulations, Virtual Physiological Human, Human Brain Project) Smart, green and integrated transport Engineering (performance, sustainability, energy efficiency) Inclusive, innovative and secure societies (Smart Cities, multivariable decision/analytics support) Addressing Societal Challenges Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials (Simulators for Climate & Earth Sciences, Gas&Oil) Secure, clean and efficient energy (Fusion, nuclear plant simulations) Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine research and the bio-economy (simulation of sustainability factors (e.g. weather forecast, stock plagues and diseases control, etc))

35 HPC- Exascale Challenges in FET Energy: Extrapolation of current power consumption (e.g. Top system Tianhe-2) would need ~1 GW for sustained exaflops: breakthroughs and advances in circuits, architecture and software are needed to achieve the ~20 MW exaflop computing Memory and I/O: Handling of memory, latency and locality at all levels, from processor, to network and storage Programmability and algorithms: Programmers face the challenge of handling billions of computing threads. Only very few applications using HPC really take advantage of current petaflop system. Resilience: Innovative ideas are needed to cope with a very unstable and complex environment of millions of cores with frequent fault rates Co-design: Technology development must be associated to users requirements to get the right systems to satisfy the needs of applications. engaging a European-wide effort to develop technology to build exascale systems within ~10 years

36 (a) Exascale technology FET-Proactive: Towards Exascale High Performance Computing [FETHPC] The exascale computing frontier requires fundamental science and technology developments to ensure the transition to extreme parallelism and extreme data evolution of most of the key technological solutions that are satisfactory today will be insufficient to meet the exascale challenge Content: R&D covering the whole spectrum from processors and system architectures to high-level software and tools and novel applications (e.g. encompassing system software, file systems, programming environments and tools, algorithms, mathematics etc.) engaging a European-wide effort to develop technology to build exascale systems within ~10 years

37 FETHPC Call FET-Proactive Towards Exascale High Performance Computing Topics: FETHPC 1 (research and innovation): HPC Core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications FETHPC 2 (coordination and support): HPC Ecosystem Development

38 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1: HPC core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications Proposals shall target one of the following subtopics: a) HPC core technologies and architectures b) Programming methodologies, environments, languages and tools c) APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems d) New mathematical and algorithmic approaches

39 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-a HPC core technologies and architectures addressing one or more of the HPC core technologies (processors, memory, interconnect and storage) and their optimal integration into HPC systems, platforms and prototypes. Proposals should have a co-design approach driven by ambitious applications and in close cooperation with the scientific disciplines and stakeholders concerned, aiming at radical overall system performance improvement while at the same time addressing issues such as: a holistic understanding of energy efficiency across the full HPC system architecture; I/O, storage and data-throughput capabilities especially for bigdata applications; radical scalability, concurrency, locality and resilience in the presence of millions of cores.

40 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-b Programming methodologies, environments, languages and tools development of new programming models, domain-specific languages, programming paradigms, visualisation and data-analysis tools to facilitate the effective exploitation of the full system capabilities (including energy management) of the emerging large- and extreme scale systems, in particular for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications. 40

41 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-c APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems: New APIs and the corresponding efficient, flexible and scalable exascale system software for managing extreme scale systems, taking into account extreme parallelism, extreme data, energy consumption and resilience. Proposals are expected to include communication and dissemination activities towards relevant standards bodies and research programmes. Critical mass to coordinate the API work in the exascale stack. 41

42 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-d New mathematical and algorithmic approaches for existing or emerging applications on extreme scale systems. Energy-aware algorithms and maximum exploitation of projected characteristics of exascale-class systems. Specific issues are quantification of uncertainty and noise, multiscale and extreme data. Software engineering for extreme parallelism should be addressed. Open source development is privileged. 42

43 FETHPC Call FETHPC1: Expected impact Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda, thus strengthened European research and industrial leadership in HPC technologies. Covering important segments of the broader and/or emerging HPC markets, especially extreme-scale HPC systems. Impact on standards bodies and other relevant international research programmes and frameworks. European excellence in mathematics and algorithms for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications to boost research and innovation in scientific areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, life sciences, materials, climate, geosciences, etc. 43

44 FETHPC Call Budget and type of projects in FETHPC1 Total budget for FETHPC1: 93.4 million EUR Type of projects: Research and Innovation Actions (100% funding). A minimum of 60% of the available budget will be allocated to research under part a) of the scope. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Under part a) of the scope also larger proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 8 million can be envisaged. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. 44

45 Implementation Impact Excellence Evaluation criteria Research and Innovation Actions Clarity and pertinence of the objectives Soundness of the concept, including trans-disciplinary considerations, where relevant Extent that proposed work is ambitious, has innovation potential, and is beyond the state of the art (e.g. ground-breaking objectives, novel concepts and approaches) Credibility of the proposed approach The expected impacts listed in the work programme under the relevant topic Enhancing innovation capacity and integration of new knowledge Strengthening the competitiveness and growth of companies by developing innovations meeting the needs of European and global markets; and, where relevant, by delivering such innovations to the markets Any other environmental and socially important impacts (not already covered above) Effectiveness of the proposed measures to exploit and disseminate the project results (including management of IPR), to communicate the project, and to manage research data where relevant Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of tasks and resources Complementarity of the participants within the consortium (when relevant) Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures, including risk and innovation management

46 FETHPC Call Coordination & Support Actions FETHPC 2: HPC Ecosystem Development Proposals shall address one of the two following topics: a) Coordination of the HPC strategy b) Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems 46

47 FET-HPC in WP Coordination & Support Actions FETHPC 2: HPC Ecosystem Development Specific challenge: To develop a sustainable European HPC Ecosystem Scope: a) Coordination of the HPC strategy : coordination of the activities of stakeholders such as ETP4HPC, PRACE, application owners and users (including emerging HPC applications), the European exascale computing research community, the open source HPC community, etc. b) Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems : boost European research excellence on the key challenges towards the next generations of high-performance computing systems; cutting across all levels hardware, architectures, programming, applications; ensure a durable integration of the relevant European research teams; selfsustainability of the research integration on the longer-term Budget & Deadline: 4M -> Deadline: 25/11/2014

48 Implementation Impact Excellence Evaluation criteria Coordination & Support Actions Clarity and pertinence of the objectives Soundness of the concept Quality of the proposed coordination and/or support measures Credibility of the proposed approach The expected impacts listed in the work programme under the relevant topic Effectiveness of the proposed measures to exploit and disseminate the project results (including management of IPR), to communicate the project, and to manage research data where relevant Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of tasks and resources Complementarity of the participants within the consortium (when relevant) Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures, including risk and innovation management

49 FET-OPEN novel ideas for radically new technologies 2014 EUR million EUR million Call Deadline 30/09/ :00 Brussels time FET-HPC - Towards exascale high performance computing /11/ :00 Brussels time FET-OPEN novel ideas for radically new technologies /03/ :00 Brussels time 29/09/ :00 Brussels time

50 Overview of HPC calls outside FET

51 Interrelation between the three elements Scope of the PPP Access to best HPC for industry and academia (PRACE) specifications of exascale prototypes technological options for future systems FET/HPC: EU development of Exascale technologies Collaboration of HPC Centres and application CoEs provision of HPC capabilities and expertise Excellence in HPC applications (Centres of Excellence) identify applications for codesign of exascale systems Innovative methods and algorithms for extreme parallelism of traditional/emerging applications

52 e-infrastructures Call Call Topic 4: Pan-European HPC infrastructure and services Context respond to ever growing computational and simulation needs to stay at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and to boost innovation capabilities of industry (including SMEs) Challenge Creating a world-class pan-european infrastructure, providing state-ofthe-art services and access (both to industry and academia), independent of location Complementing the activities of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in HPC to implement the HPC strategy HPC resources in Europe need to be further pooled, integrated and rationalised

53 e-infrastructures Call Call Topic 4: Pan-European HPC infrastructure and services Scope Provision of a seamless and efficient Tier-0 service Activities (e.g. training, service prototyping, software development etc.) building on national HPC capabilities (Tier-1) necessary to support Tier-0 Openness to users/new applications; promote industrial take-up of HPC services in particular by SMEs; Governance/business model to ensure long term financial sustainability

54 e-infrastructures Call Call topic 5: Centres of Excellence for computing applications Context very few applications using HPC take advantage of current systems, maintained on "best effort" approach for specific communities new computational methods and algorithms must be developed, and (new) applications must be (re-) programmed in radically new ways Challenges Ensuring EU competitiveness in HPC applications for addressing scientific, industrial or societal challenges. User-focused, developing a culture of scientific and industrial excellence, Placing computational science and harnessing of "big data" at the centre of scientific discovery and industrial competitiveness 'thematic' on specific application domains, 'transversal' on computational science; 'challenge-driven' addressing societal or industrial challenges; or a combination

55 e-infrastructures Call Call topic 5: Centres of Excellence for computing applications Scope User-driven Communities in the driving seat Integrating the different components of computing and data e- infrastructures From hardware architectures to software applications Multidisciplinary domain expertise co-located alongside HPC system, software and algorithm expertise Distributed but with a possible central hub federating capabilities around Europe

56 e-infrastructures Call Call Topic 6: Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs Objective complementing the HPC strategy (action from the HPC EC Communication) HPC Competence Centres set up in some Member States/regions to facilitate access and take-up by industry of HPC services Challenges Foster the use of HPC by SMEs, thereby contribute to the implementation of the European HPC strategy Lack of European-wide coverage Support one network of HPC competence centres to: Promote access to computational expertise anywhere in Europe Enable dissemination of best practice in HPC industrial use particularly for SMEs.

57 e-infrastructures Call Scope Call Topic 6: Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs Networking of HPC competence centres to exchange best practices and pool technical, expertise or business resources Raise awareness of the benefits of HPC for SMEs Identify the pool of SMEs and available expertise in different business areas at European level and mechanisms to match SME needs and expertise available. Training. One network: Coordination, outreach, training and exchange of best practice and software components between competence centres Complementing current activities and services with actions of a clear European added-value that cannot be performed at local level

58 e-infrastructures HPC Calls EINFRA Pan- European HPC infrastructure and services 2014 EUR million EUR million Call Deadline 02/09/ :00 Brussels time EINFRA Centres of Excellence (CoE) for computing applications /01/ :00 Brussels time (tbc) EINFRA Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs /09/ :00 Brussels time

59 FET Flagships tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges 59

60 FET Flagships salient features FET Flagships are highly ambitious, large-scale, long-term, science-driven, goal-oriented, roadmap-based research initiatives, which will: provide strong scientific, technological and IPR basis for establishing areas of European leadership and bringing substantial benefits for society help overcome fragmentation and increase the impact of European research and innovation efforts and which will require: cooperation among a range of scientific communities/disciplines, with industries and with the involvement of representatives from the civil society a long-term commitment of all key stakeholders sharing a common scientific vision and under a strong leadership a joint effort of EU and national programmes to provide a large financial support (~ 100 M /year) over a long period (~10 years) 60

61 Graphene & Human Brain Project selected Preparatory Phase Pilots 05/ Call for 04/2012 Preparatory Actions 21 6 July 2010 Stimulating ideas & structuring the scientific community Flagship selection 6 2 end 2012 Ramp-up phase 10/ /

62 Graphene FET Flagship Graphene, is a 2D material, a single layer of carbon atoms, stronger than diamond, yet lightweight and flexible and an exceptional electricity conductor. The Graphene Flagship will bring graphene, and related 2D materials, from academic labs to industry, manufacturing and society. Artistic impression of a corrugated graphene sheet Credit: Jannik Meyer Examples Applications: electronic paper; bendable smartphones; enhanced solar cells and batteries; lighter and more energy efficient airplanes On the longer term, graphene is expected to give rise to new computers and revolutionary medical applications such as artificial retinas. Nokia Morph concept - Credit: Nokia Research Center 62

63 The Human Brain Project (HBP) HBP will create the wold's largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed models of the brain (from genes to mind), for studying how the human brain works and ultimately for simulating and developing personalised treatment of brain diseases. This research lays the scientific and technical foundation for medical progress: identifying new drug targets and treatment, in response to the urgent need to combat brain diseases and their associated costs to society. HBP will also produce brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems that could drastically reduce powerconsumption for super-computers and enhance robots. 63

64 Thank you for your attention! All H2020 Calls and necessary documentation are published on the Participant Portal