Background Total budget of the call: € 50 000 000
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) fosters exploratory research to open up new avenues across the full breadth of future information and communication technologies. It supports new and alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or nonconventionalnature. FET aims to go beyond the conventional boundaries of ICT and ventures into uncharted areas, often inspired by and in close collaboration with other scientific disciplines. FET-Open is a light, topic-agnostic and deadline free scheme specifically designed to be open and continuously responsive to novel and fragile ideas that challenge current thinking, whenever they arise and wherever they come from. It aims at foundational breakthroughs that can open radically new directions for information and communication technologies in the future. FET-Open also aims to increase the role of young researchers and high-tech research intensive SMEs in its cooperative research to further enhance their disruptive innovation potential and to unlock longer-term scientific and industrial leadership.
Objectives
- ICT-2013.9.1 FET-Open: Challenging current thinking
- ICT-2013.9.2 High_Tech Research Intensive SME in FET research
- ICT-2013.9.3 FET Young Explorers
- ICT-2013.9.4 International Cooperation in FET research
Budget
Budget: € 50 000 000
Deadline: 15 April 2013