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Future Internet Public Private Partnership

The Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) aims to advance Europe's competitiveness in Future Internet technologies and systems and to support the emergence of Future Internet-enhanced applications of public and social relevance. It addresses the need to make public service infrastructures and business processes significantly smarter (i.e. more intelligent, more efficient, more sustainable) through tighter integration with Internet networking and computing capabilities.

The aims of the FI-PPP are to increase the effectiveness of business process and of the operation of infrastructures supporting applications in sectors such as transport, health, or energy and to derive possible innovative business models in these sectors, strengthening the competitive position of European industry in domains like telecommunication, mobile devices, software and service industries, content providers and media.

The FI-PPP follows an industry-driven, holistic approach encompassing R&D on network and communication infrastructures, devices, soft ware, service and media technologies; and their experimentation and validation in real application contexts. It brings together the demand and the supply sides, and also requires involving users early into the research lifecycle. The platform to be developed will thus be used by many actors, in particular by SMEs and public administration services, to validate the technologies in the context of smart applications and their viability to support «user driven» innovation schemes.

The FI-PPP is based on a three-phased approach with four tightly related Objectives and two dedicated Calls under this Work Programme. A third Call is planned under Work Programme 2013.

Programme architecture

Phase 1: Short abstracts and contact information of all proposals in negotiation

(Important Notice: This document has been edited by the consortia of FI-PPP proposals under negotiation and has been published with their explicit agreement. The fact of publishing this document at this stage (publication date, 10 March 2011) does not pre-empt any decision of the European Commission to fund the projects in negotiation, or not, as this will depend, among others on the timely outcome of the negotiations. The publication has been done merely to satisfy the general interest in the FI-PPP. Eventually, the FI-PPP will set-up its own website where you will find in the future project and programme related information. )

Implementation roadmap

Call 1 Identifier: FP7-2011-ICT-FI (20 July – 2 December 2010) – budget 90 MEuro
• Technology Foundation (one IP, 41 MEuro, 3 years, 30% flexible)
• Use Case Scenarios – Phase 1 (7-8 areas, IP, 5 MEuro, 2 years)
• Capacity Building (one CSA, 3 MEuro, 3 years)
• Programme support (one CSA, 6 MEuro, 5 years)

Call 2 Identifier: FP7-2012-ICT-FI (18 May – 28 October 2012) – budget 80 MEuro
• Use Case Scenarios Pilots – Phase 2 (5 areas, 13.5 MEuro, 2 years)
• Capacity Building (one IP, 12.5 MEuro, 2 years)

Call 3 Identifier: FP7-2013-ICT-FI (December 2013) – budget 130 MEuro
• Devoted to the expansion and enlargement of many testbeds and pilots (several areas, ~100 MEuro, 2 years)

Further information

Text of the special clause 41 on ""Complementary grant agreements" for FI PPP contracts.
The official adoption by the Commission is expected for 2 March 2011, upon which it shall be published on Cordis

Additional information on the negotiation process of call FP7-2011-ICT-FI

Information on the evaluation process

Communication on A public-private partnership on the Future Internet (EN FR DE DA ES NL IT SV PT FI EL CS ET HU LT LV MT PL SK SL BG RO ) from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.

Press release on the Future Internet Public Private Partnership

Work Programme on the Future Internet Public Private Partnership

Call 1 of the FI-PPP (deadline 2 December 2010)

GUIDANCE NOTE for project coordinators planning a competitive call for additional beneficiaries in an ICT Integrated Project
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GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS participating in a competitive call for additional beneficiaries in an ICT Integrated Project

ICT Event 2010 - Work Programme Session: Future Internet PPP (incl. presentations)

Full FP7 ICT Work Programme

Read more about the future plans for the Future Internet and the public-private partnership.