My experience

I am an architect with a PhD in architecture from the earlier millennium, more precisely on the matter of relations between settlements and transportation based on Ekistic studies by long forgotten (?) world planner C.A. Doxiadis. I have also been a member of my national parliament and Director General of two governmental agencies in transportation, tendering public transport throughout Scandinavia and analyzing facts on transportation in Sweden.

Recently I have formed a consortium for proposing to the FET Open a ground-breaking, and also ground-saving, technologically novel infrastructure for our future transportation, all distances. We have missed applying prior to the first two cut-off dates, due to the complexity of our mission, but managed a hand-in prior to the third cut-off date.

My idea

FET Open is marvellous! It has a true European identity, even so by its global concern and involvment. The success rate of the whole program should become hundred percent! I mean FET Open in its essence reflects a European mindset from classical times via the creation of universities, great research, inventive industrial breakthroughs and, not the least, liberation, democracy and equality of all people plus freedom of expressing any thought.

Honouring FET Open like this I am led to suggest a reallocation of the EU overall Horizon 2020 budget in favor of FET Open,  restraining incrementally programs. As an example I know that "Smart, green and integrated transport" is such an incremental program. You see, the problem is not an excess of proposals to FET Open, FET being too open, but rather tha fact that other programs are too closed, hindered by preconceived ideas, like if transport infrastructure should be based on 19th and 20th century infrastructure in the future. FET Open should be an avant garde.