ICT Research & Innovation

The overall objective of the EU-funded READ project is to implement a Virtual Research Environment where archivists, humanities scholars, computer scientists and volunteers are collaborating with the ultimate goal of boosting research, innovation, development and usage of cutting edge technology for the automated recognition, transcription, indexing and enrichment of handwritten archival documents.

Carewell has defined, implemented and validated a new integrated care model aimed at complex chronic and multiple comorbidity patients. The purpose was to improve the quality of life for these patients and their carers through the implementation of new care pathways thus achieving improved co-ordination and communication with the staff involved.

Could future mobile networks be programmed to automatically predict and adapt to huge peaks in traffic demand? The EU-funded ACT5G project is developing the concept as a key component of next generation mobile networks.

Do you have a great idea for a future technology, far beyond what is currently possible? Could it become real if Europe's best minds were put on the task? Share your views and contribute to the identification of the themes of tomorrow's FET Proactive programme. The consultation is open until 30 April 2016.

Do you have a great idea for a research theme that could lead to a new technology? Could it become real if Europe's best minds were put together to work on it? Share your view and the European Commission can make it happen via its Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship programme.

Robots the size of bacteria represent the future of medical surgery, ERC research team BOTMED have developed microrobots, currently being tested on animals, that will be able to enter the body through natural pathways and perform key medical procedures with minimal impact. This development is a step forward as important as the advent of endoscopic surgery in the 1980s.

The second cut-off of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open call on 31 March 2015 resulted in 14 new projects retained for funding, 11 of them for Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and three for Coordination and Support Actions (CSA).

Swarms of robots with emergent behaviours, evolving and shape-changing robots, or new multifunctional robots? This area is pushing science and engineering of robots beyond fiction.

All these H2020 FET projects deal with quantum phenomena (atomic scale), and explore a diverse set of applications.

These FET projects investigate new materials, like 2-D materials, and their applications for new technologies.

This is an overview of the EU-funded FET projects advancing nanotechnologies.

New H2020 EU-funded projects in FET want to investigate new technologies for medical applications, or neurotechnologies.

Global System Science aims to help integrate the abundance of data on social, economic, financial, technological, and ecological systems available today and elaborate societal responses across policy domains and cross-cutting authorities.

These FET projects involve artists and scientists for deep collaborations.

The European Commission (DG CONNECT) will be holding a webinar on 29 January from 11.00 to 12.00 CET on the call topic "Internet of Things: IoT-01-2016: Large Scale Pilots Pilot 1: Smart living environments for ageing well". The webinar will give an overview of the topic and provide answers to participants' questions via the chatroom. If you want to participate, please send an e-mail to CNECT-ICT4AGEING@ec.europa.eu, subject: webinar registration. Proposers should also check the networking tool.

Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research, funding opportunities in 2016, latest project news, reporting on workshops & conferences and future events.

Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research, funding opportunities in 2016, latest project news, reporting on workshops & conferences and future events.

The Research Executive Agency (REA), in cooperation with the EC's DG for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, is organising an Information Day on the calls for proposals to be launched in 2016 by the Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET Open) and the topic ‘Emerging themes and communities’ of the FET Proactive schemes.

The European Commission’s DG CONNECT (‘Net Futures’ Directorate) is hosting an Info Day about current open 'calls' for research funding grants and calls under "Horizon 2020 ICT Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT)" and also for IoT cross-cutting actions.

Is a precise answer always better than a slightly less detailed one? Not necessarily. Some problems could take forever to compute and tie up vast IT capacity. Where solutions are needed urgently, e.g. in business or manufacturing, near-enough can be more than enough. ERC-funded research has produced a library of fast, powerful approximation algorithms.