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Objective ICT-2011.10.1 EU-Brazil Research and Development cooperation

a) Microelectronics/Microsystems

Target Outcomes

- Methodology, design blocks and specific design tools that complement and go beyond the capabilities of commercially available software in the areas of: design of integrated multi- technology systems, ultra low power design, RF design, design of energy efficient systems, methodology and tools for system in package and 3D integration;

- Heterogeneous Microsystems integration and packaging technologies. Sensor technology, integrated solutions encompassing all aspects for technological uptake, from sensor networks and RFIDs to standardisation including energy scavenging.

The focus of this effort should be on the technology development and the build-up of technology infrastructure rather than exclusively on applications.

Specifically encouraged applications areas to be used as proof of concept and demonstration vehicles are: monitoring, tracking and traceability in areas that include environment, food quality, agriculture, logistics and public transport. Supporting technologies for solar energy exploration such as converters and energy storage; Electric power trains in vehicles; telemedicine solutions and tools for the early diagnostics of endemic and epidemic diseases.

b) Networked Monitoring and Control

Target Outcomes

Engineering of Networked Monitoring and Control Systems, emphasising the engineering challenges associated with networked cooperative embedded and control elements, including the integration of physical layers of networked devices, e. g. Wireless Sensor Networks, for monitoring and control of complex large-scale systems with a view to improve system efficiency in terms of energy and raw materials.

Challenges to be addressed include, but are not limited to, scalability, self-configuration, availability, self-healing, context awareness, including location awareness, reconfigurability, adaptability, networking in harsh environments, mix of real-time, quasi-real-time and non- real-time constraints and optimisation taking into consideration price signals, plus associated programming development as well as operations and management tools and platforms.

Expected Impact (for Topics 1 / 2)

• Closer cooperation between materials, equipment and component suppliers; solution providers; system integrators; manufacturing and processing plants; and R & D institutes on both sides of the Atlantic. Strong involvement of industry participants interacting closely with research organisations and users.

• Increased knowledge and skills at the frontier of smart component and smart systems integration / complex systems engineering, with a view to increased efficiency and effectiveness of smart components and smart systems engineering / processes, plants and systems contributing to the competitiveness of the industry involved, increased attractiveness to investments and putting research organisations in leading positions

• Contributing to environment protection and energy efficiency through smart solutions for energy management and distribution, smart control of electrical drives, smart logistics or energy-efficient buildings/facility management, utility management and networked embedded intelligence.

c) Future Internet - experimental facilities

Target Outcomes

A shared experimental communication infrastructure, at large scale, supporting access to mobile and/or wireless technologies, interconnected or federated with existing FIRE/Future Internet infrastructures. These flexible network experimental facilities can be based on the integration of a large-scale optical transport network with a variety of access technologies, including wireless. The testing of the interconnection and interoperability may include, as experience pilots, the development and test of concrete advanced applications and services of public utility, in target areas such as: education, telemedicine, environmental and climate monitoring, applications supporting biodiversity.

The underlying emerging technologies and research areas to be considered and investigated should be the most suitable for this kind of developments, e.g. network virtualization, delay- tolerant networks, opportunistic communications, people-centred and content-centred routing / naming / addressing schemes.

The developments should be based on open standards with open Application Programming Interfaces, such as Openflow or InterCloud communications, and consider existing activities (e.g. Onelab, Federica, Panlab, ORBIT-OMF)

Expected Impact

Creating a large-scale experimental facility for Future Internet research in Brazil, involving the Brazilian network research community and associated industry, federated with similar facilities in Europe, to lower entry barriers and promote competition in the development and experimental validation of proposals for new network architectures, services and applications of public utility.

d) Future Internet - security

Security and trust are important conditions for ensuring the wider use of ICT and countering the "Digital Divide". There are two complementary and timely initiatives taking place in Europe and Brazil: The Future Internet Assembly and the provision of broadband access to digital information, which aim to maximise uptake of valued trustworthy services for citizens the Information Society.

Target Outcomes

In order to deliver an environment that can guarantee digital inclusion for all citizens, independent of their educational, cultural and economic environment, the following challenges must be addressed in an integrated manner:

- The development of trusted communications infrastructures providing consistent user access to services independent of cost, location, service type, access device. Addressing control and security of personal data, device independent access, user profile management, ensure same quality of experience irrespective of chosen access device, quality of service and accessibility are import element of this challenge.

- The development of application service environment(s) providing secure and consistent access to functionality irrespective of access device, access network and service provider network. Issues associated with citizen data management and handling such as access, storage, protection and accountability are key elements of this challenge

- Personalisation, usability and accessibility regardless of educational and technical background is key to citizen empowerment. Addressing the issues of trust and security up front are necessary for the successful acceptance and uptake of the digital inclusion environments. Citizens will benefit from these environments; however, in order to use them, they will need to trust them without undue technical burdens and they must satisfy citizens needs and circumstances.

The wrapping of these key research topics with the required Trust and Security is one of the most important challenges of this new communications environment. The level of engagement within this environment will be highly dependant on the level of security provided.

Expected Impact

Creating an environment for digital inclusion with globally relevant solutions that are trusted by citizens and that incorporate technological, social and legal requirements.

e) e-Infrastructures

EU and Brazil collaboration on e-Infrastructures builds on the solid ground of existing projects. The aim in this Call is to make a contribution in addressing global challenges by combining ICT research efforts in areas where the EU and Brazil possess unique capabilities or resources.

Target Outcomes

Create a data and open access e-Infrastructure enabling collaboration on virtual & remote instrumentation and taxonomy, with emphasis on life sciences, biodiversity and climatology. This cooperation should allow the integration between Brazilian and European e-science initiatives. More specifically, R&D should address the following subtopics:

- Remote operation and virtualisation of research installations and instruments. This should require the integration of existing Brazilian and European e-Infrastructures, creation of procedures, easy to use interfaces and scientific gateways to provide scientists with access to the consolidated e-Infrastructure and to virtual research environment applications (e.g. to data pools, electronic publication of domain specific or cross-disciplinary data, data curation tools, networking collaboration tools, sharing of high-quality media, video streaming, etc.).

- Open access and open data platforms and organisational structures in support of geographically dispersed scientific communities cooperating on informatics for life sciences, taxonomy, biodiversity and climatology, taking advantage of Brazil's unique geographical position and environmental and climatic conditions. This should allow the creation of Federated Scientific Repositories as well as Open Source Taxonomy platforms both as enablers of collaborative research and as educational environments.

Proposals should include specific activities for the identification of further future Brazil-EU collaboration using e-infrastructures in the above two subtopics.

Proposals should also address the use of existing e-Infrastructures and related advanced information and communication technologies in support of their stated goals, such as: networking, simulation software, visualization tools supported by distributed high- performance computing environments, knowledge representation technologies, collaborative environments, data management and storage for reuse, reproducibility of experiments and quality assurance of results.

The duration of the proposed work should not exceed 30 months. Proposals should allocate resources to address both subtopics above. None of the subtopics should be allocated less than 1/3 of the total resources.

Expected Impact

Promote the consolidation of a state of the art e-Infrastructure which exploits the computational, communication and data resources on both sides, enabling the EU and Brazil to address grand challenges in science and society. Bringing together the different scientific communities via advanced e-Infrastructures will facilitate the progress towards Open Science, Access and management in various scientific fields.

Funding schemes STREP

Indicative budget distribution10 EUR 5 million

Call

FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil

Objective ICT-2009.10.2 EU-Russia Research and Development cooperation

Target outcomes

a) Programming Models and Runtime Support

Programming models to address programmability and portability issues for multicore and accelerator based systems. Work should focus on developing or selecting specifications of generic and portable programming models (e.g. via languages, directives or library APIs) and provide implementations (compilers and runtime support libraries) on heterogeneous multicore and accelerator based nodes. The models should address the integration issues between system level and node level models in hybrid programming styles as well as compatibility between different low level devices (GPUs, FPGAs,...). This includes flexible and efficient mechanisms for synchronization and locality handling. Efforts to evaluate the developed environments in comparison to other alternatives would be desirable.

b) Performance Analysis Tools for High-Performance Computing

Portable and efficient performance measurement, analysis, and modeling tools to support hybrid programming (e.g., mixed MPI/OpenMP/Accelerator) both on homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore hardware architectures and accelerators including GPUs and FPGAs. Tools should be targeted towards abstract characterisations of the performance of applications hiding the user from the specifics of a given hardware platform from the whole system down to the level of separate low-level units.

c) Optimisation, Scalability and Porting of Codes

Optimisation and scaling of application codes to thousands of cores including porting of codes to new (heterogeneous or homogeneous) multicore hardware architectures, using advanced methods, technologies, and tools. Examples include: use of new methods for mesh generation, new solver parallelisation, various forms of task and data parallelisation, utilization of specific accelerators, including GPU and FPGA. Scientific computing domains and application domains are focused on, but not limited to: CFD, molecular dynamics, electromagnetic, biology, seismic signal processing and remote sensing.

Expected impact

• For a):

o Improved understanding of the advantages/disadvantages/applicability of programming models.

o Improved programmability of parallel computing systems.

• For b):

o The state-of-the-art in hybrid parallel programming methodologies should be significantly advanced.

o Development of tools to support mixed-mode programming and programming of heterogeneous architectures.

• For c):

o The state-of-the-art in optimisation and scalability methodologies should be significantly advanced. Effective measurements of improved performance and comparison between various types of parallelisation will be valuable.

o Porting of codes to bigger number of cores

• For (a), (b) and (c): Increased cooperation between EU and Russian organisations. Funding Schemes

STREP (1 project per topic) Indicative budget distribution10 EUR 4 million

Call

FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Russia

Objective ICT-2011.10.3 : International partnership building and support to dialogues

Target outcome

a) Support to dialogues and cooperation with strategic partner countries and regions, to create cooperative research links between European organisations and partners in third countries

The aim is to support dialogues between the European Commission and strategic partner countries and regions, and to increase cooperation with strategic third countries and third country organisations in collaborative ICT R&D both within FP7 and under third country programmes. This could include in particular:

- the identification and analysis of ICT research priorities in third countries, and the provision of recommendations for future co-operation initiatives, including e.g. coordinated calls, and the facilitation of access of European organisations to third country programmes,

- the organisation of events synchronised with dialogue meetings, providing input and follow-up for example on common R&D priorities, opportunities and challenges,

- the strengthening of cooperative research links between European organisations and relevant organisations in third countries, with the aim of establishing strategic partnerships,

Targeted countries/regions: ACP, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, High Income Countries, Latin America, Mediterranean Partner Countries and West Balkan Countries.

b) Enable Partnership building in low and middle income countries

The aim is to leapfrog from traditional promotion support action projects and launch a set of targeted research projects (STREP/SICAs) addressing at the same time technology and business model innovations. Specific technological targets could include for example low- cost technologies, technologies promoting or enabling use of ICT, intuitive user interfaces and local content provisioning.

Targeted countries: Low and middle income countries46 including Africa Expected impact

• Reinforcement of strategic partnerships with selected countries and regions in areas of mutual interest and added value in jointly addressing important issues.

• Reinforced international dimension of the EU ICT research programme and higher level of international cooperation with low and middle income countries in ICT R&D with a focus on areas where the EU has a comparative advantage and where there are new leadership opportunities for Europe.

Activities under this objective should be covered in balanced partnership with relevant third country organisations. Consortia are strongly encouraged to include, as appropriate, leading research centres/universities, relevant industry representation, third country multipliers (e.g. national research authorities/agencies), communication specialists and/or experienced market research organisations.

Funding schemes

a): CSA (Support Actions) b): STREP/SICA

Indicative budget distribution10

Total EUR 6 million, of which EUR 4 million for part a) and EUR 2 million for part b) Calls

a) FP7-ICT-2011-7 b) FP7-ICT-2011-9

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