1. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Future and Emerging Technologies Objective ICT-2009.8.6: Towards Zero Power ICT (2zeroP)

2. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Rationale & Objective Efficiently powering or self-powering of all the electronic devices surrounding us in our daily life is a major challenge for transformative research. therefore New disruptive directions are needed –for energy-harvesting technologies at the nanometer and molecular scale, –and their integration with low-power ICT into autonomous nano-scale devices for sensing, processing, actuating and communication.

3. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Target Outcome Foundations of Energy Harvesting at the nanoscale: –Demonstration of radically new strategies for energy harvesting and local storage below the micrometer scale. –Exploration and harnessing of potential energy sources at that scale including kinetic energy present in the form of random fluctuations, ambient electromagnetic radiation, chemical energy and others. –Research may also address bio-mimicked energy collection and storage systems. Self-powered autonomous nano-scale electronic devices: –Autonomous nano scale electronic devices that harvest energy from the environment, possibly combining multiple sources, and store it locally. –These systems would co-ordinate low-power sensing, processing, actuation, communication and energy provision into autonomous wireless nanosystems.

4. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Expected Impact Possibility of building autonomous nano- scale devices (from sensors to actuators), extending the miniaturisation of autonomous devices beyond the level of the ‘smart dust’ New applications in a vast number of ICT fields such as intelligent distributed sensing, for health, safety-critical systems or environmental monitoring

5. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Workprogamme text in brief At “nano-scale” harvest and store energy to build up self powered devices to serve ICT purposes like sensing, processing, actuating, communicating Look for radically new approaches…

6. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Biology Photosynthesis Biology Catabolism Nano- Robotics Chemistry Molecular Engineering Electronics Ultra-Low-Power Electronics Nanoscale Energy Conversion mechanical to electrical Nanoscale Energy Conversion chemical to electrical Nanoscale Energy Conversion electromagnetic to electrical Chemistry Energy Storage Electronics Energy Storage Theory NEMS Towards Zero Power ICT Call on multi-disciplinary research (non-exhaustive list of disciplines)

7. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Workshop, 23 June 2009 Open Workshop in Brussels, 23 June 2009 organised by “Nano-ICT” Coordination Action with support by FET Community driven event to elaborate on specific research challenges addressed in this FET initiative Information about this workshop will be available soon on http://www.phantomsnet.net/Foundation/index.php?project=1&intra=1 and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/2zerop_en.html http://www.phantomsnet.net/Foundation/index.php?project=1&intra=1 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/2zerop_en.html

8. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT What else? This objective is new, nothing similar has been called before within Future & Emerging Technologies. The relevant scientific communities have yet to emerge. Objective 3.9 aims at developing energy efficient smart systems, whereas “Towards Zero-Power ICT” is looking for disruptive approaches at the nano-scale. What this “Towards-Zero-Power ICT” is not addressing: e.g. nano-scale features enhancing large scale energy harvesters (e.g. quantum dots improving solar cells)

9. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Objective ICT-2009.8.6 within Call 5 Opening: July 31 st, 2009 Deadline: November 3 rd, 2009 Funding scheme: STREP only Budget: 7 million Euro Contact persons: Ralph.Stuebner@ec.europa.eu David.Guedj@ec.europa.eu Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/2zerop_en.html Towards Zero Power ICT Additional Information

10. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Future and Emerging Technologies Thank you very much for your attention!

11. Call 5 National Contact point Briefing, Brussels, 12 May 2009 INFSO FET Ralph Stübner Towards Zero Power ICT Work Programme Text