TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 23 January SZTAKI, Budapest Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Dr. Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media Unit E2 – Technologies for Information Management

2 PRESENTATION OUTLINE Part 1 Work Programme 1. European Policies Content 2. Role of IST/ICT 3. Community Interest 4. Domain of activities Part 2 Practical Tips and Hints Contacts data

FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 Part 1 Policy & Work programmes

4 INTRODUCTION EUROPEAN COMMISSION The Information Society and Media Directorate General Directorate E Digital Content & Cognitive Systems (Luxembourg) E1: Interaction & Interfaces E2: Technologies for Information Management E3: Cultural Heritage & Technology Enhanced Learning E4: Access to Information E5: Cognitive Systems & Robotics E6: eContent and Safer Internet E7: Administration and Finance

5 Mission statement of DG INFSO INFORMATION SOCIETY Support innovation and competitiveness in Europe through excellence in ICT research and development. Define and implement a regulatory environment that enables rapid development of services based on information, communication and audio-visual technologies, so fostering competition that supports investment, growth and jobs Encourage the widespread availability and accessibility of ICT-based services, especially those that have the greatest impact on the quality of life of the citizens. Foster the growth of content industries drawing on Europe’s cultural diversity. Represent the European Commission in international dialogue and negotiations in these fields, and promote international cooperation in ICT research and development.

6 I2010 Full alignment of cohesion and information society policies on the Lisbon agenda i2010: a comprehensive strategic framework for information society policies in Lisbon The i2010 priorities reflected in the SF programming guidelines Community cohesion and rural development spending targeted towards supporting the Lisbon Strategy: Earmarking of cohesion expenditures to Lisbon (60% for convergence and 75% for competitiveness regions) Consistency between Lisbon national reform plans and Structural Funds strategic reference programmes

7 The i2010 priorities III. Inclusion, better public services and quality of life Achieving an Inclusive European Information Society and prioritise better public services and quality of life I. A Single European Information Space The completion of a Single European Information Space, A vision of convergence based on: High speed network, availability of content on line, secure networks and services, interoperable solutions II. Innovation and investment in research Strengthening Innovation and Investment in ICT research And promote the use of ICT by businesses

8 Main EU instrument to fund Community research Community Framework Programmes Over 20 years of Pan-European R&D collaboration Implemented through specific programmes and work programmes, periodic calls for proposals, independent evaluation ~ 6% of Europe’s civil R&D investment

FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 FP6 Framework Programme Project Portfolio

10 General Overview of IST in FP6 (Information Society Technologies) Proposals received Requested funding M€ Contracts ~ 1000 EU contribution M€ Contractors 4 753

11 E2 in FP6 Knowledge management and Content creation 62 projects, ~700 contractors, 270 M€ RTD&D: – long term research (formal, theoretical) – component technology research & development – applied, system-level research – demonstration emphasis on – generic, enabling technologies – flexible, cross-sectoral application platforms

12 E2 in FP6 = 4 Calls Cross-media Content (call 2): novel forms of digital content creativity & interactivity, user experience & control, story-telling & non-linear narratives… Content & Knowledge (call 4): intelligent, dynamic content access & management (meta data generation / extraction, semantic annotation & indexing, contextual retrieval…), automated workflows, aggregation & personalisation... Knowledge (calls 1 & 4): intersection of Web, MM and KR&R (SemWeb+) networked information & communities, automation of knowledge lifecycle, web / multimedia “documents”, from static to dynamic information, interaction & evolving processes Audiovisual Search Engines (call 6): organising, searching and accessing large scale, distributed audiovisual content automated knowledge discovery and extraction, annotation and summarisation, indexing and retrieval of all types of digital content (text, image, video, audio, 3D objects etc.), including protected content

13 MUSCLE KnowledgeWeb REWERSE Acemedia DIP SEKT VIKEF Alvis Aspic DirectInfo News Simac Metokis AgentLinkIII KB20 3DTV Axmedis IperG Inscape IPRacine NM2 Polymnia WalkOnWeb WorldScreen RevealThis Peng Holonics Content4All M-Pipe GameTools INCOMM LeMatch NoEIPSTPCASA K-Space NeOn Salero Super Live X-Media Mesh Musing Nepomuk OpenKnowledge Luisa TAO Boemie Swing Towl Sevenpro AsIsKnown Trends BootStrep Ontogeo S-TEN MediaCampaign Caretaker TripCom Patexpert Text Multimedia Knowledge Representation Services

FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 FP7 I nformation and C ommunication T echnologies ICT Work programme

15 FP7 Cooperation Programme (Total budget: M€)

16 Based on wide consultations 100+ thematic consultation meetings +web consultations Strategic Research Agendas of European Technology Platforms – European Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS) – Consolidated European Photonics Research Initiative (Photonics21) – Mobile and wireless communications technology (eMobility) – Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) – Networked and electronic media platform (NEM) – Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) – …………………………..

17 FP7 Aims to Reinforce Europe’s strongholds Network and service infrastructures – communication equipment and services, business software, security solutions … Components and embedded systems – semiconductors, equipment, photonics, plastic electronics, integrated micro/nano systems … embedded systems in vertical markets: cars, planes, medical, telecom … A strong academic research community – in core ICT fields and in other disciplines relevant for ICT: biotech, materials, cognitive sciences …

18 Work Programme approach and structure A limited set of Challenges that – respond to well-identified industry and technology needs and/or – target specific socio-economic goals A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of Objectives that form the basis of Calls for Proposals An Objective is described in terms of – target outcome – expected impact on industrial competitiveness, societal goals,.. – Funding schemes A total of 25 Objectives expressed within 7 Challenges

19 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics 1. Network and service infrastructures 3. Components, systems, engineering 4. Digital libraries and content 5. ICT for health 6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth 7. ICT for independent living and inclusion Socio-economic goals Industry/Tech needs Work Programme 2007 Challenges

20 Digital Libraries and Content “ Make content and knowledge abundant, accessible, interactive and usable over time by humans and machines alike.” – content must be made available and its long term usability, accessibility and preservation must be ensured – effective technologies need to be developed for intelligent content creation and management and for supporting the capture of knowledge and its sharing and reuse ICT Challenge

21 Complementary tracks Digital Libraries – cultural, scientific, scholarly content – typically public-interest services – networking, accessibility, sustainability …  acquisition (digitisation, rights)  curation, preservation Intelligent Content – media & organisational content – mostly private players – commercial (creative industries) or competitive (enterprises) value  from creation through to consumption

22 Intelligent Content.1 3 axes: – boost creativity, enhance experience (« better ») – master content (richer & « easier ») – dig out « hidden » information (find & correlate) 3 forms of content: – (social) media content – enterprise information – scientific data (e.g. biomedicine) everything is multimedia & networked – text, image, video, audio, 3D …

23 Intelligent Content.2 Make digital resources that embody creativity and semantics (”intelligence”) easier and more cost effective to produce, organize, search, personalise, distribute and use across the value chain. media professionals, enterprise designers, talented amateurs  more expressive, communicative & participative forms of content; enhanced productivity; greater ease of (re)use organisations, communities  more effective acquisition, processing & distribution of digital content and machine-tractable knowledge; sharing in collaborative environments

24 E2 after CALL 1 & 3 Call 1&3 – Objective: Intelligent Content and semantics. 28 projects, 234 contractors, 101 M€ 3 RTD&D main lines: Online content, interactive and social media, Knowledge discovery and management Reasoning and information exploitation.

25 FP7 Call 1 inputs: – 148 proposals – 1210 participants from 50 countries – 473 Meuro requested, 51 Meuro available outputs (1:10): – 15 proposals retained for negotiation – 128 participants from 21 countries  55% academia & research centres  45% business & public sector

26 Response popular themes:  content creation & processing, media (film, TV, advertising …) & other appls (eg surveillance)  knowledge management in a range of business & public-interest domains  personalisation & summarisation Recurring features: video & 3D; automated extraction, annotation & indexing; social approaches … gaps:  creative authoring (eg online games, virtual worlds, industrial design …)  immersive rendering, multimodal consumption

27 Successful proposals post-production tools for the film & games industry semantic coding of 3D objects, sharing of 3D models semantic wikis as a knowledge management tool enterprise knowledge aids integrating social software & semantics distributed, approximate & incomplete reasoning …

28 FP7 Call 3 inputs: – 252 proposals (+41%) – 2017 participants from 49 countries – 817 Meuro requested, 50 Meuro available Outputs (1:19; -5%): – 13 proposals retained for negotiation – 106 participants from 21 countries  51% academia & research centres  49% business & public sector

29 Response popular themes :  content creation & processing,  Semantic foundations and knowledge management  Social interaction to support activities of organisation or communities  Temporal reasoning, dimensional reasoning and uncertainty  ……

30 Successful proposals The highest-ranked proposals clearly focussed on advancing the current state of the art by considering multiple media types, novel rich- content environments, semantic foundations and knowledge management Authoring environments for creative professionals and amateurs covering video, game development, story telling, graphic design. Exploiting ambient information coming from virtual as opposed to real environments

31 NoEIPSTPCASA Call 1 Call 2 Call 4 Online Content, Interactive & Social Media Knowledge Discovery & Management Reasoning & Information Exploitation APIDIS CASAM SMARTMUSEUM ANSWER 3D POST KYOTO JUMAS SERVICE FINDER KIWI SYNC3 PRONTO LARKC OKKAM ACTIVE WEKNOWIT ONTORULE VALUE IT PLUGIT CALL 1 CALL3 FOCUS K3D FP7 project portfolio IMP INSEMTIVES eLICO PuppyIR IKS NoTube IRIS CALBC SmartProducts

32 PROBLEMS after 2 calls Participation of the new member states 1st call Only 14 contractors out of 118 are from new countries. Using 8 % of the funding 3rd call Only 3 contractors out of 93 are from new countries. Using 1.6 % of the funding

33 PROBLEMS after 2 calls Participation of SME STREP 24% of the requested funding was for SMEs IP 26% of the requested funding was for SMEs CSA-SA 20% of the requested funding was for SMEs NoE 0% of the requested funding was for SMEs ALTOUGH SMEs make up 99% of European enterprises and employ over 65 million people.

FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 FP7 ICT Work programme

35 UNIT E2 FROM Intelligent Content TO Intelligent Information Management ICT Challenge 4 Digital Libraries and Content

36 The rationale for furthering a research programme in Intelligent Content and Semantics in the timeframe is a simple analysis of the rate at which digital content is being produced and the changing conditions of its production and consumption. In 2010 more than 500 billion digital images will be captured on digital cameras and mobile phones (up from 250 billion in 2006). Similar increases in the volume of digital information can be observed as the result of the automation of experimental protocols (for example in biomedicine), the coming on line of sensors and RFID readers, the deployment of CCTV cameras, satellites with ever greater resolution, etc. Intelligent Information Management

37 UNIT E2 Intelligent Information Management Key consultation themes: – Capturing tractable Information – Delivering pertinent information – Collaboration and decision support – Personal sphere – Impact and S&T leadership Key dimensions: any kind of large data sets + real time

38 Overall approach.1 research for a purpose, problem & objective driven centred around users, data & flows – a compelling use case is as important as the underlying research meaningful demonstrator(s), field validation & assessment active promotion & dissemination of results beyond scientific circles

39 Overall approach.2 address clearly established problems, widely recognised outside academic circles:  better quality of output  save time  cut cost application requirements – driving innovative ICT developments use of ICT in the application context – prerequisites, incentives, repercussions

40 MORE INFORMATION? UNIT E2 WEB SITE knowledge/

FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007 Part 2 Tips and Hints

42 Time schedule Call 5 Call 5 will be published on 31 July 2009 Deadline: 3 November 2009 Indicative Budget: 70M€

43 Some statistics! IPs  impact – up to 4 years, 5-9 Meuro (EU funding) NoEs  integration – up to 3 years, up to 3.5 Meuro STRs “research”  S&T innovation – up to 3 years, 2-4 Meuro STRs “demonstration”  uptake – up to 2 years, 1-3 Meuro CSAs (coordination & support actions) – up to 3 years, up to 1.5 Meuro

44 Partnerships keep consortium manageable compact consortia (8.5 on average in Call 1):  IPs 7-12 partners  STRs4-8partners  NoEs 3-4 “core” partners select competent, committed & reliable partners; geography not an issue! industry, SME, academia … participation as dictated by project needs “launching user” organisations to provide a demanding problem & application/validation context

45 Quality Impact Effectiveness but also Relevance wrt. WP (remember: 150 to 200 proposals!) Credibility Contrary to earlier calls, evaluators will have access to Web sources: previous projects, teams & skills, background & reference documents … Success factors.1

46 It’s a project, not a dissertation: – problem? – user? – data? – outputs (incl. public ones)? – metrics? – impact? – exploitation channels? Success factors.2

47 Success factors.3 preserve your credibility: select one proposal & make it win ensure that the proposal brings out both innovation & exploitation potential full depth of participation rather than long list of organisations key individuals, expertise & achievements rather than long list of projects

48 RTD content – narrow scope, little or no EU dimension – lack of focus, aims too general – lack of innovation, current state of art missing planning – links missing between objectives & work plan – milestones missing or too general – risk factors not addressed, no contingency plans – no monitorable indicators, no metrics management – consortium not balanced, gaps in the skills mix – lack of integration between partners – vague management structure – weak or narrow dissemination plans – ill-defined exploitation prospects Reasons for failure

49 Further info  ICT under FP7 cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/  Unit E2 – Technologies for Information Management. URL: mailto:

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