IPCN-01: All-Optical Networks and Terabit Transmission
IPCN-02: Networks and interoperability
IPCN-03: Technologies for Networked Services
IPCN-04: Integration of high performance realtime communications and information processing systems.
SSSE-01: Responsive, Emergent and Evolutionary Software Intensive Systems Engineering
SSSE-02: Intelligent and Emergent Services Engineering
SSSE-03: Technologies for Knowledge and Intelligence sharing and reuse
SSSE-04: R&D in statistics within the European Statistical System (ESS).
SSSE-05-ver. 1.1: European Initiative on Dependability
RLSV 2: Networked Virtual and Hybrid Environments for Tele– and Virtual Presence
MPCS-01: Terrestrial Wireless Communications Systems and Networks
MPCS-02 : Satellite Communication Systems and Services
MPCS-03 : Enabling Technologies for Wireless Communications
MPCS-04 : Software Re-configurable Radio
IMVS-01: Intuitive self–adaptable multi-sensorial interfaces
PSSM-01: Improved sensing and displaying beyond reality
PSSM-02: Intelligent computing/communications devices and network terminals
PSSM-03: Generic microsystems and subsystems designing, computational prototyping and manufacturing.
MELE-01:Electronic Design and Semiconductor technologies for applications
MELE-02: Advanced process technology, equipment and materials
MELE-03: Opto-electronic and photonic technologies and devices
MELE-04: Interconnections
HORI-01: European Initiative on Dependability
HOR-02: Integration and convergence of infrastructures for broadband services supporting Information Society applications.
HORI-03: Take-up actions for Essential Technologies
HORI-03bis: Take-up actions for software systems and services
RTD objective(s)
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Relevance of the proposed work to the establishment of integrated and open trans-European telecoms networks
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
To ensure the availability of the building blocks for the infrastructure which will support the implementation of the Information Society, and support the growth of applications based on the Internet and Web browsing, which have produced an enormous growth in demand for communications bandwidth. This need for bandwidth is expected to grow even faster in future, as new services and applications develop, and can only be met by developing new multi-wavelength optical fibre networks, with sophisticated capabilities at all levels, including operation and management.
Need to be undertaken at European level
These networks need to provide trans –Europeanconnectivity, and interwork with global networks
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
The RTD activity needs to involve the major European network operators and manufacturers. This type of activity is not expected to reach the stage of commercial exploitation before 2003. Monitoring of the research "work in progress" is necessary.
Relevant "fiches"
009, 081, 193, 305, 307, 340, 341, 342, 366, 367, 514, 505, 511, 512, 514, 515, 522, 557, 558, 562, 563, 564, 565, 568, 570, 579, 601, 632
RTD objective(s)
Monitorable objectives would be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Manufacturers of telecom products will benefit by offering high performance switches, routers, access devices, modems in a competitive manner to telecom operators, broadcasters, Internet Service Providers. Consequently, consumers will have access to enhanced and cheaper devices, services and multimedia applications or electronic commerce.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Communication technologies have become a key sector for the whole economy, with successful major players although the competition is rude especially in the converging sector of data and telecom industry. Moreover, the interoperability and growth of communication networks in Europe is an important factor for economies of scale and European integration.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
136, 304, 306, 310, 396, 400, 407, 419, 451, 496, 508, 509., 510, 511, 513, 516, 518, 519, 521, 522, 532, 536, 540, 544, 545, 552, 558, 584, 597, 600, 605, 618, 628, 658,
RTD objective(s)
To foster the development of technologies for network and service integration to ensure that all users have affordable access to narrowband and broadband multimedia nomadic services in a competitive environment.
More specifically the objectives are:
Monitorable objectives include:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Need to be undertaken at European level
New services are currently being defined by individual providers, rather than by the rational segmentation of specific usage markets. This tends to lead to ad-hoc fragmented approaches: different types of services are offered by different providers using different techniques implemented in different infrastructures. There is the danger that increased liberalisation may create a fragmented system with interconnection only at the level of basic services. The technologies for network and service integration will pave the way towards an open service market where service providers will cooperate in such a way that services from one provider can be used by other providers as components in their own services, thus forming value chains of services. Such an open service market will be key in the Information Society.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
303, 311, 312, 313, 316, 318, 325, 517, 518, 523, 525, 537, 553, 600, 602, 622, 623,
RTD objective(s)
To develop new computing and communication paradigms and technologies enabling the integration of high performance real-time communication and information systems. Such developments should take full advantage of the increased bandwidth available by the future networks, incorporate intelligence at various levels of components and networks infrastractures, support distributed processing environments, provide inter-domain and user-customised service scenarios (supporting also componentware) and provide also efficient and flexible control and management capabilities (including e.g. new charging paradigms) and security.
Main goal of this action line will be to provide a smooth evolution and integration of today´s communication and computing systems to future paradigms (such as intelligent cognitive machines and mobile and intelligent agents) and architectures (such as active intelligent networks) aiming at meeting new arising user needs and business objectives.
More specific objectives include:
Monitorable objectives could be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Information systems and telecom industry, operators, vendors, service providers and users will benefit from the fostering of RTD related to this fast growing market sector. Industry will strenghen its mid-term competitive skills. Service providers will be able to provide complex services in a multi-vendor and multi-operator enviroment. Users will benefit from richer services.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Europe has strong competences but suffers from dispersion and tough competition in this strategic sector. Therefore, efficient and EU coordinated RTD is needed to reinforce EU positions.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
208, 299, 301, 312, 315, 317, 319, 330, 403, 480, 482, 498, 520, 526, 527, 523, 524, 525, 528, 529, 530, 531, 533, 534 ,557, 558, 561, 570, 609, 610, 612, 624, 626, 635, 636,
RTD objective(s)
To foster new ways of development, deployment and operation of responsive, emergent and evolutionary software-intensive systems in a variety of products as well as in production and enterprise processes to meet current and future business objectives in a rapidly evolving economic and technological context and fully exploiting the opportunities and features provided by the emerging network computing architectures and platforms.
Goal is also to improve the quality, dependability, survivability, scaleability, accountability, auditability and intelligence of responsive, emergent and evolutionary software-intensive systems, products and processes to increase the spectrum of their support in human centred activities.
Measurable objectives would be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Calls for RTD projects every six months.
Open Call for demonstrations & trials, take-up/best practice and concertation & standardisation actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Organisations developing software-intensive applications will benefit by improving their ability to meet customers’ demands and expectations. Organisations procuring or using software in their products, services or key processes will benefit by ensuring that software which becomes increasingly pervasive and mission-critical does timely contribute in a measurable and controllable manner to the achievement of their business objectives. Consumers and citizens, who use products or services that increasingly rely on software, will realise that applications and services effectively meet their needs in a dependable and affordable way.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Information technology and software in particular has become a key sector for the whole economy and presents huge opportunities for growth in the years to come. Europe has strengths to be exploited, but the complexity of future systems together with growing users’ expectations require major advances in the way systems are built and deployed.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Impact can be monitored following the technological development and the market building actions being undertaken by key emerging players or groups.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
002, 004, 005, 011, 197, 215, 217, 218, 219, 254, 279, 284, 427, 475, 482, 498, 549
RTD objective(s)
To foster the rapid and cost-effective creation, development, composition, provision and management of innovative, sophisticated and personalised information and communication services by addressing and easing the integration of heterogeneous platforms and networks.
Goal is to facilitate the emergence of information and communication service infrastructures that improve the reliability, accountability, security and quality of services.
Measurable objectives might be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Calls for RTD projects every six months.
Open Call for demonstrations & trials, take-up/best practice and concertation & standardisation actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
Organisations developing software-intensive applications will benefit by improving their ability to meet customers’ demands and expectations. Organisations procuring or using software in their products, services or key processes will benefit by ensuring that software which becomes increasingly pervasive and mission-critical does timely contribute in a measurable and controllable manner to the achievement of their business objectives. Consumers and citizens, who use products or services that increasingly rely on software, will realise that applications and services effectively meet their needs in a dependable and affordable way.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Information technology and software in particular has become a key sector for the whole economy and presents huge opportunities for growth in the years to come. Europe has strengths to be exploited, but the complexity of future systems together with growing users’ expectations require major advances in the way systems are built and deployed.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Impact can be monitored following the technological development and the market building actions being undertaken by key emerging players or groups.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
150, 191, 218, 225, 274, 284, 528, 529, 530,
RTD objective(s)
Goal is to achieve new capabilities, representation paradigms, models and tools to master complex and multidisciplinary data and information (of enormously varying scales) and to support their transformation in "re-usable" and exploitable enterprise-wide or domain-wide knowledge ontologies.
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Calls for RTD projects every six months.
Open Call for demonstrations & trials, take-up/best practice and concertation & standardisation actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
Organisations developing software-intensive applications will benefit by improving their ability to meet customers’ demands and expectations. Organisations procuring or using software in their products, services or key processes will benefit by ensuring that software which becomes increasingly pervasive and mission-critical does timely contribute in a measurable and controllable manner to the achievement of their business objectives. Consumers and citizens, who use products or services that increasingly rely on software, will realise that applications and services effectively meet their needs in a dependable and affordable way.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Information technology and software in particular has become a key sector for the whole economy and presents huge opportunities for growth in the years to come. Europe has strengths to be exploited, but the complexity of future systems together with growing users’ expectations require major advances in the way systems are built and deployed.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Impact can be monitored following the technological development and the market building actions being undertaken by key emerging players or groups.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
230, 249, 626, 627, 507, 531, 547, 550,
RTD objective(s)
Generally, statistics, statistical databases and statistical activities are a subset of broader scientific and information endeavour but they require special treatment in accordance with probability theory and sound practice. (This Action Line is concerned with R&D in statistics and not statistics on R&D.) The ultimate aim is to improve the reliability, timeliness, comparability, transparency and user-friendliness of the statistics and the statistical service to all stake-holders in the economy and society. Accordingly, the specific RTD objectives under KA IV are the development of statistical methodologies and associated software for:
Main type of action:
Applied research for software development, plus technology transfer through trials, demonstrations, studies and training.
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
November 1998 and February 1999
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
Increased transparency to the citizen and improvement of decision-making in all sectors and at all levels of government
Need to be undertaken at European level
Increased value-for-money from Europeanisation of research that is common to all member states, promotion of EU-wide networks, development of critical mass and institution-building in less favoured statistical offices
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
(duplicate: see Cross-Programme until further notice)
RLSV-01: Advanced, modular and integrated simulation and visualisation systems.
RTD objective(s)
To foster the use of advanced modular and integrated simulation and visualisation systems into the working or operational environments in engineering design, business processes, and societal applications and services. Such systems would leverage on the availability of components for new and better products and services exploiting the opportunities and features provided by the emerging networking, computing and virtual reality technologies.
Goals are to close the gap between the analytically based modelling and the experiments in order to reach a better representation of reality, to improve the interface between the analytical modelling capabilities and the user environment, to facilitate component reuse, to develop and promote standards, and to improve ways of working in industrial and services environments with special emphasis on co-operative working.
The scope of this action line would include:
Main type of actions
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
Calls for R&D projects should be done once per year.
Calls for trials, experiments, awareness, first user and take-up actions should be open with at least two evaluations each year.
Calls for concertation and standardisation actions should be open and evaluated ad hoc.
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The ability to predict through simulation the behavior of physical, social or financial systems has clear and quantifiable advantages. It can significantly reduce the number of expensive experimental tests or allow the achievement of highly optimized solutions not otherwise attainable. The return on investment comes from improved design and optimization of both mass and one-off expensive products. Economic and societal benefits derive from better quality and performance of off-line and real-time, embedded and stand-alone planning, control and monitoring systems.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year’s budget
How to monitor progress/impact
Impact can be monitored following the technological development, the emerging standards and the market building actions being undertaken by key emerging players and groups.
This work is linked with work on research networks, and KA III
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant fiches
018, 209, 230, 234, 296, 299, 538
RTD objective(s)
To enable radically new ways of communicating, working, learning and playing in a distributed and networked environment, exploiting tele and virtual presence by facilitating and supporting the wider use of virtual reality technologies in traditional and emerging scientific, social, business, industrial and artistic applications.
Goal will be to leverage on tele/virtual presence to enhance the effectiveness of communication among people, the wider deployment and positive impact of educational systems and the attractiveness of entertainment applications.
Monitorable objectives would be:
The scope of this action would include:
Main type of actions
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
1999
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The far-reaching potential of virtual presence in terms of its impact on social interactions and working habits makes it inherently relevant to all sectors of society including research, industry, transport, regulators, investors, unions, etc. This will result in a drastic cut in travel addressing pressing needs in terms of environment protection and sustainable development
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year’s budget
How to monitor progress/impact
The progress can be monitored by demonstrating/reporting on results in the different fields addressed, such as:
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
This work is linked with RLSV1, IMVS 1, KA II and KA III (HLT and IAF action lines)
Relevant fiches
RTD objective(s)
More specific objectives include to investigate, develop and trial novel and advanced wireless applications, services, systems, architectures and networks and their integration, interworking, interoperation and in particular to:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Compatibility with the requirements of the above referred terrestrial platforms, systems and networks. User trials with targeted user groups.
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The development, demonstration and validation of innovative wireless systems, architectures and networks will accelerate the take up of mobile and personal services and applications, beyond those currently offered by Second Generation systems. In so doing the technological and market world leadership of Europe in this sector will be strengthened. Contributions to standards development is seen as key in the rapid adoption of novel systems and networks. In the longer term, availability of critical network technologies for future systems notably those operating at higher frequency bands will allow European industry to be positioned on that market segment.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Wireless communications projects are by nature of European dimension, they bring together a large cross-section of the IST industry, academia and a large number of SMEs. With the majority of the activities aiming at supporting standardisation, on aspects which have a global dimension, consensus at European level is essential.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Through service validation/demonstration by operators and service providers; through progress of standards and other specifications fora, through technology trials; ultimately through the trade balance of Europe for the sector.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
RTD objective(s)
To support European industry competitiveness in the field of satellite communication systems capable of :
Being seamlessly integrated with the terrestrial networks.
More specific and monitorable objectives will be :
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Compatibility/complementarity with work at Space Agencies level (national or supranational) has to be verified, especially for the development relating to basic technologies.
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Short term demonstration/validation of innovative satellite services and applications are expected to accelerate introduction of such services by operators, hence leading to increased telecommunication application development opportunities for European industry, a sector where Europe is well placed. In the medium term, validation of system/network/service concepts through demonstrators as well as standardisation are expected to foster introduction of innovative systems such as S-UMTS and broadband interactive multimedia satellite services. In the longer term, availability of critical technology for future systems operating at higher frequency bands will allow European industry to be positioned on that market segment.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Satellite communications are by nature of European dimension, as exemplified by the current restructuring/ collaboration agreements at European level in the sector. Satellite communication projects are traditionally implemented through multinational consortia usually including large number of SME’s. With the majority of the activities aiming at supporting standardisation, consensus at European level is required.
Share of the year's budget
Commensurate with the many Commission declarations on the strategic importance of the sector (see in particular the Action Plan on Satellite Communications, doc COM(97)91).
How to monitor progress/ impact
Through service validation/demonstration by operators ; through progress of standards, through technology trials ; through involvement of external players with expert advise such as Space Agencies.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
RTD objective(s)
To assist in securing the current world leading position of the European industry in the area of wireless and mobile communications infrastructures notably for:
To investigate, develop and trial the innovative tools and technologies that are necessary to facilitate a mass market take up of wireless terminals, services and applications, while contributing to the optimal use of the spectrum and allowing for the exploration of higher spectrum regions. Such technologies specially addressing the needs of wireless (terrestrial and satellite based) communications include and are not limited to:
Specific and monitorable objectives will be :
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Compatibility with the requirements of the above referred terrestrial and satellite platforms, systems and networks.
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The development, demonstration and validation of innovative wireless optimised tools and technologies are expected to accelerate the introduction of mobile and personal services and applications by operators and service providers. In so doing the technological and market world leadership of Europe in this sector will be strengthened. Contributions to standards development is seen as key in the rapid adoption of novel systems and networks. In the longer term, availability of critical technologies for future systems notably those operating at higher frequency bands will allow European industry to be positioned on that market segment.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Wireless communications projects are by nature of European dimension, they bring together a large cross-section of the IST industry, academia and a large number of SME’s. With the majority of the activities aiming at supporting standardisation, on aspects which have a global dimension, consensus at European level is essential.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Through service validation/demonstration by operators and service providers; through progress of standards and other specifications fora, through technology trials; ultimately through the trade balance of Europe for the sector.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
RTD objective(s)
In the above framework, specific topics of research include but are not limited to:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Compatibility with the requirements of terrestrial and satellite platforms, systems and networks.
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The development, demonstration and validation of software radio tools and technologies (communications oriented operating systems and languages) are expected to accelerate the introduction of mobile and personal services and applications by operators and service providers by reducing the cost of the terminals. The inherent flexibility of such "intelligent" radio terminals will simultaneously stimulate a market for application development and lead to the development of enhanced wireless services. Contributions to standards development is seen as key in the rapid adoption of novel systems and networks. In the longer term, availability of critical technologies for future software re-configurable systems will allow European industry to compete in the terminal market and keep its lead in the base station market.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Wireless communications projects are by nature of European dimension, they bring together a large cross-section of the IST industry, academia and a large number of SMEs. With the majority of the activities aiming at supporting standardisation, on aspects which have a global dimension, consensus at European level is essential.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Through service validation/demonstration by operators and service providers; through progress of standards and other specifications fora; through technology trials.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
RTD objective(s)
To enable and support the development of improved ways and new paradigms to capture, package and deliver information, as well as the evolution of interaction with systems providing new solutions for corporate and personal environments, and novel interfaces adapting to different usage conditions, users and their possible various location
Goals are to improve user acceptance of advanced ICT systems and services, and to decrease the complexity of the user interaction with ICT services
The scope of the action line would include:
Main type of actions
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
1999
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
A concerted effort at European level will result in economies of scale for high-complexity and high-risk research and integration. It will maintain and enhance EU lead in some underlying technologies such as networking, audio-visual signal manipulation and coding, human interfaces, etc. Their impact on social interactions and working habits makes them inherently relevant to all sectors of society including research, industry, transport, regulators, investors, unions, etc.
Need to be undertaken at European level
The development of the next generation digital AV (multimedia) services is strictly dependent on the interfaces to provide easy access to services. The "content access" paradigm is a driving force to the deployment of platforms considering both home and business end-users.
Multi-sensorial interfaces are essential to empower the interactivity" channels developed to deliver multimedia systems. Interactivity is not limited to "service interactivity" but to a more flexible approach that can be stated as "interaction with content". This will enable the user-friendliness in "using" content but also to create content by producing or editing. As a consequence, more content will be exchanged and delivered demanding for high bandwidth availability on the delivery infrastructures (digital storage media, networks). This can be called the "terabit step". This will sustain an important role of Europe in areas such as electronic generic content production.
The scientific and technical competence in this area is spread among several actors in Europe that are performing very well and have a strong presence in the standardisation of associated technologies.
Share of the year’s budget
How to monitor progress/impact
This work is linked with RLSV 2, PSSM 01and KA III (HLT action lines) and progress/impact should be monitored in this wider context
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant fiches
058, 140, 292, 295, 345, 361, 411, 539, 546, 676, 324, 626
RTD objective(s)
To develop and integrate low cost, low power, miniaturized highly integrated and advanced sensors (e.g. multi-sensors, bio/chemical sensors) for critical domains (e.g. medical, environment) as well as for large volume applications with high level of autonomy and reliability.
To develop integrated audio-visual advanced (including high resolution colour displays) low power, low cost displays and opto-electronic solutions for innovative professional & consumer applications, such as
The scope of the action is
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
The work should include a significant amount of usability studies and subjective quality evaluation to make sure that user expectations are met.
Expected call dates
1999
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
Need to be undertaken at European level
This action line aims to enhance the European research in this area and to help the rapid commercialisation of the developed technologies. Supporting networking and close co-operation between universities, start-up companies and bigger companies boosts commercialisation.
European companies are pre-eminent in digital communication and mobile computing and this action line will help develop competitive display products targeted towards the needs of this market segment.
The work for advanced sensor systems needs to be undertaken at a European level because:
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
132, 133, 177, 203, 206, 213, 227
RTD objective(s)
To stimulate, facilitate and support the design and development, including simulation, verification and computational prototyping of microsystems as individual systems or generic subsystem in the overall system.
Goal is to transfer competence from research to industrial use, to facilitate access to existing technologies for small volume and prototyping and to support take-up in and developments in applications for all industrial sectors.
Measurable objectives might be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Three calls (every six months) for RTD projects and for technology transfer;
Open Call for concertation & standardisation actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Information and communication technologies are being integrated within all kind of devices, opening new possibilities for functionality and services. This is based on the new generations of microsystems that constantly evolve adding more performance and capability, along with the possibility to being used in a variety of new applications. Mass-markets put a new dimension to microsystems. The massive deployment of microsystems will affect all aspects of society: work place, entertainment, home, transport, energy control.
Need to be undertaken at European level
The work in this action line will have to be complementary and linked to as well as co-ordinated with corresponding national or International initiatives.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Impact can be monitored following the technological development and the market building actions being undertaken key emerging players or groups.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
023, 466, 430, 429, 428, 424, 204, 188, 252, 247, 246, 245, 244
RTD objective(s)
To stimulate, facilitate and support the enhancement of application modelling as well as systems specification and validation capability (including simulation, verification and computational prototyping of system-on-chip), verification and testing that take full account of the target system and application.
Goal is twofold:
Measurable objectives will be:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
The main benefit is leveraging on the existing reservoir of highly competent staff and on the European industry leadership in certain industrial sectors to build and further extend the European strengths and competitiveness.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Chips that exploit the full potential of deep-sub-micron technologies are enormously complex and contain a mix of embedded signal & data processing functions, combined with on-chip memory. Development of these complex components and subsystems is increasingly a multi-disciplinary task requiring systems, hardware, and software and packaging co-design to realise a competitive component or subsystem.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
506, 630, 629, 431, 425, 423, 422, 404, 179, 243, 229, 130,
RTD objective(s)
To develop advanced process technologies featured by higher productivity and reliability as the driving force to achieve increased packing density and wafer sizes. Underpinning this work is of the need to stimulate and achieve the rapid advancement and innovation in new materials and the equipment and process techniques, for their use. Priority will be given to key layer-processes that form integrated sequences used in most technologies (e.g. Lithography, interconnect and "gate-stack" processing) where productivity gains may be highest where sufficient critical mass can be gathered to ensure wide ranging impact in commercial terms.
To stimulate and ensure that state of the art European innovative process techniques and equipment bridge the gap of process innovation-equipment productivity.
Measurable objectives would be:
The scope of this activity includes:
More fundamental research activity will focus on new areas of technology that might become very relevant for future innovative applications. These would include:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
The main benefit is leveraging on the existing reservoir of highly competent staff and on the European industry leadership in certain industrial sectors to build and further extend the European strengths and competitiveness.
Equipment and material are the driving forces to match expectations in scaling, productivity, wafer size for key enabling technologies.
Need to be undertaken at European level
The strategic decision on equipment choice are made increasingly in the technology development cycle and the impact of this is exacerbated by major IC companies sharing ideas and decisions in collaborative programmes in which the high costs of technology development and production are shared.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
503, 506, 478, 477, 469, 453, 408, 196, , 185, 183, 180, 178, 260, 223, 222,
RTD objective(s)
To stimulate and support the development of solid-state optoelectronic and photonic devices for applications in both the consumer marketplace (e.g. Cdrom, DVD, etc) and the high-performance high-reliability devices used in high-speed professional communications infrastructures. R&D activities would address sources, coupling and processing elements, and detectors.
The scope of this action includes the development of:
The scope for more fundamental research includes:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
None
Expected call dates
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
Both consumer and professional markets are driven by fast the expanding use of digital information at all levels. The ever-increasing need for higher data transmission capacity is pursued in the time domain by searching for faster devices and in the frequency domain by exploiting wavelength multiplexed transmissions. New solutions for opto-electronic technology integration and effective manufacturing will bring more cost-effective solutions to the market. In contrast to silicon, the performance of opto-electronic devices is often material limited, therefore, progress in material science is of prime importance, and will also offer substantial opportunities for innovation in this area.
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
RTD objective(s)
To foster the development of interconnections of active and passive components to achieve optimum levels of integration and to optimise electrical, mechanical, thermal, spatial, environmental and cost properties while dealing with both packaged and unpackaged components and carrier substrates.
Goal is to reach a closer interaction between chip, package and system design activities also by fostering the development of open, flexible, high-density interconnection schemes that combine packaged and unpackaged devices with passive and active components using a wide variety of materials and processes.
The scope of this action includes the development of:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
The work should be linked to corresponding activities on microsystems and related work on opto-electronics and photonic technologies and devices.
Expected call dates
Annotations:
Economic and societal benefits
This work is particularly important in terms of the market successes achieved in portable devices (miniaturisation) and automotive electronics (ruggedness and reliability).
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
(duplicate: see Cross-Programme RTD until further notice)
RTD objective(s)
In order for today highly vertically integrated (asymmetric) broadband services to converge towards an infrastructure for the Information Society, this infrastructure should become network-centred regarding its applications, ubiquitously permeable for its service providers and user-centred as a whole.
It is therefore necessary:
Main type of action:
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
The future Information Society should be constructed in an economically viable way, i.e. the information society infrastructure has provide profitable services to each of the business sectors investing there: Manufacturers (of all types of equipment and networks) Network providers, Services Providers and Users. These main actors do have their own different development cycles.
Need to be undertaken at European level
The business models and the technological standardisation needed for the Information Society infrastructure can only be developed at the level of a common market or larger conglomerate.
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
This work is closely linked with the work in KAI, KAII and KAIII and, therefore, progress/impact should be assessed in this wider context.
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
Relevant "fiches"
316, 330, 517, 518, 520, 521, 571, 605
RTD objective(s)
To increase the efficiency and competitiveness of European Industry through take-up of innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), together with best practice for their development and use.
The objectives of the action are to:
Measurable objectives would be:
Take-up actions will aid users (in a broad sense) to assimilate and put in practice new ICT. This will benefit SMEs mainly –but not exclusively.
Main type of action:
The mechanisms and modalities will have to be tailored to meet specific needs and priorities of individual ICT. Precisely, we have:
Information Processing, communications and networks
Software, system and engineering
Simulation and visualisation technologies and Interfaces
Mobile and Personal communications and systems
Microelectronics and Peripherals, sub-systems and Microsystems
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
Open Call for take-up actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
001, 005, 011, 218, 219, 197, 427, 584, 592, 596, 497, 498, 528, 529, 533, 631, 430, 429, 428, 187, 256, 629, 469, 431, 425, 183, 223, 130, 024, 535, 573, 571, 620, 018, 568, 552, 553, 521, 520, 519, 517, 515, 513, 512, 511, 510, 496, 622, 397, 189, …
RTD objective(s)
The objective is to ensure the adoption of innovative software technologies and best practices.
Due to the specific characteristics of the Software market (1), take-up actions are strongly perceived as a priority.
Measurable objectives would be:
Take-up actions will aid users (in a broad sense) to assimilate and put in practice new software technologies. This will benefit SMEs mainly –but not exclusively.
Main type of action:
Leveraging actions
To promote the adoption and raise awareness of innovative software technologies.
Specific evaluation criteria
Expected call dates
Open Call for take-up actions starting from the end of 1999.
Annotations
Economic and societal benefits
Need to be undertaken at European level
Share of the year's budget
How to monitor progress/ impact
Other specifications or restrictions for the call
None.
Relevant "fiches"
001, 005, 011, 218, 219, 197, 427, 584, 592, 596, 497, 498, 528, 529, 533
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