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European funding opportunities for ICT:
Internet of Things,
Cloud Computing and Big Data
Webinar - 11/03/2016
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The webinar in a nutshell
http://blog.interfaceurope.eu/h2020-net-futures-information-day/

Summary

1. Introduction:
the European Digital Single Market

1. Introduction: the European Digital Single Market
Definition: what do we mean by European Digital Single Market?
A Digital Single Market (DSM) is one in which the free movement of persons, services and capital is ensured
and where the individuals and businesses can seamlessly access and exercise online activities under
conditions of fair competition, and a high level of consumer and personal data protection, irrespective of
their nationality or place of residence*
The current situation is still fragmented and different rules apply in the 28 members states
The Digital Single Market strategy, adopted on May 6, 2015, is made up of three policy areas or 'pillars‘:
1. Access 2. Environment 3. Digital Economy
 High costs of cross-  Data protection rules  Digital literacy and

borders delivery  Communication inclusion
 Geo-blocking infrastructure  Defining priorities
 Complex VAT (broadband, 4G and for standards and
arrangements 5G) interoperability in
 Copyright reform different sectors
(health, energy…)
* Source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/digital-single-market

1. Introduction: the European Digital Single Market
Why is it important for the European economy?
The EU’s internet economy contributes some €700 billion a year, or 5%, to GDP, and the high-tech sector
employed near 8.5 million people in 2013 (almost 4% of total employment)*
The potential of the digital economy is even bigger considering the advent of new technologies related to
the Future Internet
The digital revolution had a great impact on European companies in every sector: traditional players like
Telecoms companies or TV/radio broadcasters had to change their business models and “go online” in
order to be competitive with new comers such as Over-The-Top (OTT) content and service providers
(convergence)
The competition of other markets (such as US and Asia countries) is fierce
A unified DSM will

 reinforce European competitiveness in the digital sector at global level, thus helping
European companies to increase their market share
 help European start-ups and companies to take advantage of new ICT technologies such
as Internet of Things, 5G, clouds computing, and experimental platforms
¨*Source: BCG, Five priorities for achieving the Europe’s Digital Single Market, October 2015

2. Main challenges: Internet of Things,
Cloud Computing and Big Data

2. Main challenges: Future Internet and IoT
 According to the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization

Sector (ITU-T), the Internet of Things (IoT) has been defined as a global infrastructure for the
information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things
based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies*
To simplify, IoT is a network of physical and virtual objects connected through electronics, software,
sensors and Internet in order to collect and exchange data.
 According to the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), IoT is simply the point in time when
more “things or objects” were connected to the Internet than people**
World
population
6.3 Billion 6.8 Billion 7.2 Billion 7.6 Billion
Connected
devices
500 million 12.5 Billion 25 Billion 50 Billion
Connected devices
per person
0.08 1.84 3.47 6.58
2003 2010 2015 2020
* Source: ITU-T, Overview of the Internet of things Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060

** Source: CISCO, The Internet of Things, How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything, Dave Evans, 2011
Evolution of the Web vs Internet
Important difference: Internet is not the World Wide Web!
Evolution of the Web
Stage 1: ARPANET (’70 and ‘80):

 Research phase: the web was called the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
 During this time, the web was primarily used by academia for research purposes
Stage 2: Web 1.0 (’90 and ‘2000):

 Companies started to use the Web to share information about their products and services in order to
attract clients (“static web”)
 Switch from static data to transactional information for commercial purposes in order to sell/buy
products and services (primary role of companies like eBay and Amazon.com)
Stage 3: Web 2.0 (recent years):

 Advent of Social or Experience Web characterized by user-generated content in a virtual community
and social networks (primary role of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Groupon)
Stage 4: Web 3.0 (future):

 Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across
application, enterprise, and community boundaries

Evolution of the Internet
While the Web has evolved, Internet has not changed much - the Internet is largely standardized on IP as it
was at the very beginning
IoT becomes greatly important because it is the first real evolution of the Internet
Elements that makes possible this evolution include:

 Embedded systems: systems with a specific purpose that are integrated as part of a complete
device/hardware that cannot be re-programmed by the users. An high percentage of current micro-
processors are embedded
 Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS): is the technology of very small devices (nano-scale)
 Wireless sensor networks
 Control systems
 Automation (including home and building automation): objects in the IoT will not only be devices with
sensory capabilities, but also provide actuation capabilities: object can react according to the
information retrieved from the environment

Impact of the Internet of Things
IoT will have a huge impact on business but also on our Weareables
daily life!
Cronic diseases
management
Connected and Smart

Health
self-driving cars manufacturing
Transp
ort Energy
Business
Media Smart
Cities
Smart
Connected
fridges, heating home Smart Farming
systems

A step towards a better world?
Internet of Things will generate billions of new raw data that can be used to improve people’s living
conditions
IoT will increases the amount of data available to process and will improve the communication of this
data in almost real time
The more data that is created, the more knowledge and wisdom people can obtain*
it is possible to imagine to be able to solve great problems and empowering citizens
Output: Wisdom is knowledge plus experience
Knowledge is information someone is aware of
Information together create knowledge
Input: Individual data by itself is not very useful, but volumes of it

can identify trends and generate information patterns
* Source: CISCO, The Internet of Things, How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything, Dave Evans, 2011
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2. Main challenges: Cloud Computing
The name cloud originally came from the cloud shape that is widely used in the IT
field to graphically represent the Internet
A cloud is an Internet-based computing model that gives users on-demand and ubiquitous access to
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services)
Cloud computing aims at outsourcing IT activities

(e.g. to store and process data) to one or more third
parties in order to benefit from economies of scale
Cloud computing was pioneered
Clients follow a pay-as-you-go model by Professor John McCarthy, a
that provides access to computing resources as needed computer scientist who was the
whenever from anywhere first to suggest the idea of utility
computing in 1961
In this framework, organizations decrease their IT costs as Over the past two decades,
they are no longer obliged to heavily invest in IT different implementations tried
infrastructure or maintenance to accomplish business goals to leverage similar computing
models including Web Hosting,
This structure gives users the flexibility to scale up and down Application Service Provider
in response to market fluctuations (ASP), Online File Sharing, Social
Networks

Main characteristics
 Internet-based: all cloud services are hosted beyond client boundaries and delivered over the
Internet.
 On-demand Computing Model: Organizations are no longer required to own their datacenters to
cover their IT needs
 Subscription-based Model: Clients subscribe to services they are interested in, and they are billed
according to use
 Predefined quality of service: Cloud providers state the quality terms in their service level
agreements to inform clients about expected level of service
 Easy-to-use: Cloud providers offer easy-to-use interfaces that enable clients to make use of their
services.
 Scalable: Clients are not limited with fixed amounts of resources. Rather, they can scale up or down
their usage according to fluctuating needs.
 Low-cost: Cloud computing gives small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that cannot afford
their own datacenters a significantly lower-cost option.

Pros and Cons
Pros Cons/Barriers
Provider Benefits
 Better hardware utilisation  Standards
 Bigger Software Markets  Dependeability
 Activities Monitoring  Transparency
 Higher Revenues  Security

 Internet connection
Consumer Benefits
 Availability
 Reduced Costs
 Legislation
 Reduced Setup Time
 Higher Scalability
Source: Demystifying Cloud Computing, Qusay F. Hassan, 2011

2. Main challenges: Big Data
Big data is being generated by everything around us. Every digital process and social media exchange
produces it; systems, sensors and mobile devices transmit it.
As of 2012, every day 2.5 exabytes (2.5×1018) of data were created” (source: IBM)
Data growth challenges and opportunities following the three-dimensional (3V) model:
 volume (amount of data)

 velocity (speed of data in and out)
 variety (range of data types and sources)
New dimensions to take into consideration include:
 Machine Learning: big data often doesn't ask why and simply detects patterns
 Digital footprint: big data is often a cost-free byproduct of digital interaction

2. Main challenges
Barriers
Technological barriers
 Deployment of IPv6: it has been developed to face the anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion.
With IoT, potentially billions of new sensors will require unique IP address
 Power for sensors: sensors will need to be self-sustaining
 New materials for memories. Similarly to sensors, memories are practically ubiquitous nowadays. They
are an important part of computing systems and have significant influence on their speed. New
materials are needed to overcome the limitations of traditional memories, especially for enterprise class
applications, such as cloud computing or big data analysis.
 Large amounts of data, which needs to be stored, processed and accessed. Cloud computing as a
paradigm for big data storage and analytics.
 Underlying communications infrastructure: if more than 50 billion humans and objects will be
connected to the Internet by 2020, this will have implications for the use of the underlying
communications infrastructure (5G)
 Software. Europe has a good basis and there is a need to develop a strategy that maximises this
potential – the open source / standards model is something that would deserve further discussion.
Regulatory barriers
 Agreement on standards: while much progress has been made in the area of standards, more is
needed, especially in the areas of security, privacy, architecture, and communications

2. Main challenges
Current challenges
For the industry
- Adaptation to unified standards

- New business models
- Need of heavy investments
- New skills and professional figures
For the citizens
- ICT has a pervasive impact on people’s lives and it change the way citizens interact with the
environment. New concepts such as the human-centric technological development approach
- Digital literature
For the regulator
- Standards
- Privacy
- Security
- Social control and manipulation

3. Key actions at the European level

3. Actions at the European Level
The role of the European Union
Digital Innovation is one of the top priorities of the Juncker Commission
For the past six years, the Commission is cooperating actively with Member States and third countries
towards the development and future deployment of the IoT technology
The European Commission is facilitating this transition in two ways:
 Preparation of new internet policies and a revised regulatory framework (including the creation
of dedicated PPPs, the publication of road maps….)
 Support to R&I efforts and capitalization of past investments

Internet of Things
 Launched in 2011, the European Commission supported the creation of the Future
Internet Public Private Partnership, a European programme led by the Industry for Internet
innovation
 In March 2015, the European Commission created of the Alliance for Internet of Things
Innovation (AIOTI) with the support of various key IoT players to facilitate the dialogue
and cooperation amongst all stakeholders
Big Data
In July 2014, the Commission outlined a new strategy on Big Data, supporting and
accelerating the transition towards a data-driven economy in Europe.

Cloud computing
 In September 2012, the European Commission adopted a strategy for ”Unleashing the
Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe” (the so-called 2012 European Cloud Strategy)
designed to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing across all economic
sectors.
The strategy focused on 3 key actions:
o Safe and Fair Contract Terms and Conditions
o Cutting through the jungle of Standards
o Establishing a European Cloud Partnership to drive innovation and growth to the
public sector
 The European Cloud Partnership (ECP) brings together industry and the public sector to
work on common procurement requirements for cloud computing in an open and fully
transparent way.
o Part of the ECP is the Cloud-for-Europe (C4E) initiative, aiming at helping Europe's
public authorities procure cloud products and services, so as to build trust in
European cloud computing.

Research and Innovation
 The IERC-Internet of Things European Research Cluster groups together the IoT projects funded
by the European research framework programs, as well as national IoT initiatives.
 FIWARE project: launched in 2011, FIWARE highly contributes to open innovation, to the
creation of an open community of developers and an innovation ecosystem. It will be one of the
platforms to support building blocks useful for IoT applications, while Cloud Computing will
provide objects with service and storage resources
 FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative: FIRE brings together a number of
net innovation projects built around experimental platforms in order to conduct large-scale
experiments
 Open Data strategy in order to manage content and the related large amount of information
 Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG) is working towards the definition and implementation of a
clear strategy that tackles the necessary efforts in terms of research and innovation, while also it
provides a major boost for technology adoption and supporting actions for the successful
implementation of the Big Data economy

4. Principal stakeholders

Overview
Private Sector
 Organizations representing business and large companies in telecommunications,

nanoelectronics/semiconductor companies, Telecom companies, Network operators, Security and
Service providers
o ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association has been the voice of
Europe’s telecommunications network operators since 1992
o DIGITALEUROPE represents the digital technology industry in Europe
o EICTA - European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association
 Tech & Software companies such as IBM, CISCO, Apple
 Platform Providers (IoT/Cloud)
Public Sector
 Public authorities (e.g. DG CONNECT – Directorate E Net Future)
 National Agencies
Civil Society
 Organizations representing civil society (ETUC – European Trade Union Confederation)
 Think tanks
 Organizations representing consumers (e.g. BEUC – the European Consumer Organization)

Focus
European Technology Platforms
 ARTEMIS Industry Association
 EPoSS - The European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration
 ETP4HPC - the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing
Public-Private Partnerships
 Future Internet Public Private Partnership
 High Performance Computing (HPC)
 Advanced 5G networks for the Future Internet (5G)
 Big Data Value Public Private Partnership

5. European sources of financing

R&I Network
H2020 H2020 COST
Celtic-Plus H2020 EIT Digital
ITEA3
ECSEL-Ju
Focus on SMEs:
 COSME
 H2020 Sme Instrument
 H2020 InnovFin

Research and Innovation

Horizon 2020 is the European Union Research and Innovation funding instrument for the period
2014-2020 with an overall budget of nearly € 80 billion.
The structure of the Horizon 2020 program mainly consists of three priorities or “pillars”:
 Pillar I: Excellent science, dedicated to breakthrough

research
 Pillar II: Industrial leadership, dedicated to promoting
technologies and innovations of interest to business and
SMEs
 Pillar III: Societal challenges, dedicated to address major
social problems of EU citizens
Each pillar includes several work programmes focused on

specific thematic areas (i.e. ICT, space, environment...) with a
dedicated financial contribution.
The Horizon 2020 program is complemented by horizontal

sections with separated work programmes.
The complete architecture of H2020 is available here

Funding rate
The funding rate depends on the type of action of the project mentioned in the call:
 Research and innovation actions: actions mainly aiming at establishing new
knowledge/technology.
 Innovation actions: activities mainly focused on introducing a new product/process/service in the
market (business plans, prototypes, demonstrations, pilots, market replications …).
 Coordination and support actions: Actions focused on accompanying measures such as
standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising and communication, networking
 SME instrument: dedicated to SMEs.
 ERANET Co-fund: actions in support to public-public partnerships in their preparation,
establishment of networking structures, design, implementation and coordination of joint activities
Action Funding rate

Research and innovation actions up to 100%
Innovation actions up to 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies)
Coordination and support actions up to 100%
Phase I Feasibility assessment: Business innovation grants for EUR 50,000
(lump sum) per project (70% of total cost of the project);
Phase II Innovation development & demonstration: Business innovation
SME instrument grants with an amount in the indicative range of EUR 500,000 and 2,5
million (70% of total cost of the project as a general rule);
Phase III Commercialization: the scope of this phase is to boost the
exploitation of the outputs of Phase I and II. No financial support
ERANET Co-fund up to 33%

Most Relevant sections for ICT

Pillar I – Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
The Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) programme invests in frontier and breakthrough
research and innovation with a high potential impact on technology, to benefit European
economy and society. FET consists of three complementary schemes :
 FET Open supports a bottom-up approach for exploring novel and visionary ideas. These
topics support the early stages of research to establish a new technological possibility.
Proposals should have the following characteristics ('FET gatekeepers'):
o Long-term vision;
o Breakthrough scientific and technological target;
o Novelty;
o Foundational;
o High-risk
o Interdisciplinary
 FET Proactive fosters transformative research through a set of focused thematic initiatives.
In the Work Program 2016-2017, one FET-Proactive call focus on High Performing
Computing (HPC)
 FET Flagships are visionary, large-scale, science-driven research initiatives that tackle grand
scientific and technological challenges
Link to the Work Program FET 2016-2017 here

Pillar II: Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT) - ICT
Call ICT
The call ICT is the most important and comprises 9 main activities.The most relevant are:
• A New Generation Of Components And Systems: Actions will focus

on electronics, microsystems, embedded systems and cyber-physical
systems (CPS)
• Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing: Actions will address
further progress in the design, programming and implementation
of advanced low power and customised computing as well as
Cloud Computing infrastructures and services Most of the calls in Pillar II
• Future internet: Actions in this area aim at providing an integrated require medium-high level
response to the technology challenges and to the innovation needs of TRL (Technological
Readiness Level), as the
• Content: Topics will address key industrial ecosystems along the Pillar supports Research and
data value chain and specifically for big data, the content value Innovation projects with
chain for creative, social media and convergence industries and strong industrial dimension
finally the knowledge value chain and based on cooperation
between academia and the
• Robotics: actions will focus on the development of future robots
private sector
and automation
• KET (Key Enabling Technologies): Topics in this area address
research and innovation in the two ICT KETs, photonics and micro-
and nanoelectronics

International activities
While other countries (such as US) are currently developing more autonomous research
agendas, Europe believes that a global cooperation on sensible topics like IoT, 5G and Cloud
wold be beneficial for consumers and business
In a context of limited resources, international activities should focus on those topics and
countries that present the best opportunities for impactful outcomes
The Work Program LEIT-ICT foresees cooperation with the following countries:
 Korea
 Mexico
 Japan
 Brazil
EU-Brazil Joint Call 2017
The call will focus on Cloud Computing and IoT pilots
Link to the Work Program LEIT-ICT 2016-2017 here

Cross-cutting activities: Focus Area
Call Internet of Things

Internet of Things - Focus Area (IoT- FA) aims at fostering the take up of IoT in Europe and to enable
the emergence of IoT ecosystems supported by open technologies and platforms.
This call includes the set-up of IoT Large Scale Pilots and IoT integration and platforms.
Sophisticated platform architectures for smart objects, embedded intelligence, and smart networks are
crucial for the future design of the Internet of Things applications.
Projects in this area should build upon existing platforms such as FIWARE
Call Factories of the Future

This call focuses on manufacturing, still the driving force of the European economy. Manufacturing
activity in Europe provides about 20% of all jobs (more than 30 million persons) in 25 different
industrial sectors and over 2 million companies, largely dominated by SMEs
A specific session of the call is dedicated to ICT for the Factories of the Future: the three topics under
this theme support the integration of digital technologies in all stages of the manufacturing process
from cradle to grave in order to improve Europe's ability to compete on the global markets
Link to the Work Program Cross-Cutting Activities 2016-2017 here

Other relevant calls
As mentioned, ICT is pervasive in every economic sector and reference to IoT, Big Data and Cloud are
included in other H2020 calls addressing Societal Challenges:
 Automated road transport

 Mobility for growth / smart mobility
 Personalized medecine
 Smart cities
 Blue growth
 Food security
 Critical infrastructures protection
 Physical security (access control..)
 Border security
 Digital security
Some exemples include:
 Health SC1-PM18-2016 « Big Data supporting Public Health policies »
 Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy EE-20-2017: Bringing to market more energy efficient and
integrated data centres
 Sustainable process industries - SPIRE Call (in Cross-Cutting issues)

Celtic-Plus is the Telecommunication and ICT Cluster under the umbrella of EUREKA. Celtic-Plus supports
industry-driven R&D projects in the area of telecommunication and ICT with the purpose of creating a
“Smart Connected World”.
Celtic-Plus supports bottom-up projects; any topic related to the Celtic-Plus vision of a Smart Connected
World is eligible, including the following areas:
Networking and Cloud Services and Applications
 5G, the next generation of mobile and wireless  Smart Cities and smart homes, which may require a
networks bringing broadband to everybody cross-sector approach
 Cloud computing enabling ubiquitous access for  Digital enterprises to ensure that EU enterprises stay
storing and processing data competitive within the global markets
 Internet of Things with its sensor networks including  E-health solutions in response to the challenges of
billions of sensors and activators the aging European population
 Energy efficiency to reduce the enormous amount of  Big data, including the related research challenges
energy current ICT requires for, e.g., data capture, storage, analysis, transfer, and
privacy
Participation takes place through project proposals to regular project calls. Deadline for next Call: 25 May
2016
The public funding available depends on the national funding rules, up to 50%
More details available here

ITEA3 is the Software Cluster under the umbrella of EUREKA. ITEA3 supports industry-driven R&D
projects in the area of Software-intensive Systems & Services (SiSS).
ITEA3 is addressing innovation in Software, IT Services, Internal IT and Embedded Software,

collectively denoted as ‘Software innovation’.
ITEA’s projects are bottom-up and are open to large industrial players, SMEs, universities, research
institutes and user organisations.
Participation takes place through project proposals to regular project calls once per year, the
process opens with a brokerage event.
Deadline for next Call: Autumn 2016
Each project partner must apply to their national public authority for funding
The public funding available depends on the national funding rules

The ECSEL Joint Undertaking is a partnership between the private and the public sectors for the
implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) on 'Electronic Components and Systems for
European Leadership' for advancing the state-of-the art in electronic components and systems.
ECSEL is established for a period up to 31 December 2024.
The main ECSEL-Ju objectives are:
 Contribute to the development of a strong and globally competitive electronics components and
systems industry in the European Union;
 Ensure the availability of electronic components and systems for key markets and for addressing societal
challenges;
 Align strategies with Member States to attract private investment;
 Maintain and grow semiconductor and smart system manufacturing capability in Europe;
 Build a dynamic ecosystem involving SMEs and clusters
The topics for all Calls are described in the ECSEL Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP).
The Work Program for 2016 has not been published yet, but some calls in the 2015 Work Program focused
on IoT.
The public funding available depends on the national funding rules

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe's largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the
development of better and safer medicines for patients.
IMI supports collaborative research projects and builds networks of industrial and academic experts in order
to boost pharmaceutical innovation in Europe.
IMI is a joint undertaking (JTI) between the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry association
EFPIA.
In the current work program, IMI 2 Big Data for Better Outcomes (BD4BO) program is particularly relevant.
one of the future topics will be “A European distributed data network (DDN) project to facilitate intra-EU
access to, and analysis of, real world data to improve health outcomes for EU patients »
JTI Fuel Cells

JTI Fuel cells: Novel education and training tools :
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/12131-fch-04-1-
2016.html

Networking opportunities

H2020 - European Cooperation in Science and Technology - COST
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a pan-European intergovernmental framework

established in 1971 supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars
across Europe though the creation of networks called “COST actions”. COST includes 35 Member Countries
and 1 Cooperating State (Israel).
COST is supported by H2020 through a Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) between the COST
Association (representing the member states) and the European Commission.
COST does not fund research itself, but support networking activities through the organization of
workshops, conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions (STSMs), and dissemination activities.
COST also supports the mobility of researchers across Europe.
It is possible to participate in two ways:
- apply to the COST Open Call open to ideas in all fields of Science and Technology (the next Collection
Date is 25 April 2016, 17:00 CET)
- join an ongoing COST action.
Possible ongoing actions relevant for the ICT sector could be:
 IC1406 | High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet) | 08 April
2015 - 07 April 2019
 IC1305 | Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS) | 28 March 2014 - 27 March 2018
 CA15104 | Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and beyond (IRACON) | 22 March 2016 -
21 March 2020

H2020 - EIT Digital
EIT Digital is one of the 5 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European
Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The scope of EIT Digital is to promote « disruptive innovation » in Europe with a focus on future
Information and Communication Society.
EIT Digital supports young entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and the mobilization of « talents,
ideas, technologies, investments and business » across Europe. It counts more than 130 top
European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.
EIT Digital activities include:

 Networking and collaboration: EIT ICT Labs speeds up ICT
innovation by bringing people together
 Access to finance and business development accelerator:
leverage on existing regional, national and EU-level funding
instruments to speed up innovation in Europe and integrate
the three elements of the knowledge triangle - Education,
Research and Business
 Education: it equips students, researchers, academics and
business people with skills for applying creativity, risk-taking
spirit and entrepreneurial capacity.
More details are available here

Focus on SMEs

The Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) program targets Small
and Medium Sized enterprises. COSME has a planned budget of 2.3 billion for the period 2014-2020 but it
aims al leveraging additional funds.
COSME will support SMEs in the following 4 key areas:
 Facilitating access to finance through the Loan Guarantee Facility and the Equity Facility for Growth
(60% of the available funds)
 Supporting internationalisation and access to markets (21.5% of the available funds)
 Improving the framework conditions an creating an environment favourable to competitiveness,
including support to clusters in the EU (11% of the available funds)
 Encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, with special focus on digital entrepreneurship (2.5% of the
available funds)
The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) manages COSME on behalf of the
European Commission.
COSME funds calls for tenders and calls for proposals (co-financed up to 95%)
More details on COSME are available here

The Work Program COSME 2016 is available here

The SME Instrument is a type of action of H2020 program specifically designed for Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises (SMEs) that are EU-based or established in a country associated to Horizon 2020.
The SME instrument offers business innovation support under the section Societal Challenges and the
specific part Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT).
Type of funding rates:
 Phase I Feasibility assessment: Business innovation grants for EUR 50,000 (lump sum) per project (70%
of total cost of the project);
 Phase II Innovation development & demonstration: Business innovation grants with an amount in the
indicative range of EUR 500,000 and 2,5 million (70% of total cost of the project as a general rule);
 Phase III Commercialization: the scope of this phase is to boost the exploitation of the outputs of Phase I
and II. No financial support
It is not necessary to apply to all the Phases: a SME can choose the most appropriate support
The Work Program SME Instrument 2016-2017 is available here

InnovFin – “EU Finance for Innovators" is a joint initiative launched by the European Investment
Bank Group (EIB and EIF) in cooperation with the European Commission under Horizon 2020.
InnovFin consists of a series of integrated and complementary financing tools and advisory services
offered by the EIB Group, covering the entire value chain of research and innovation (R&I) in order
to support investments from the smallest to the largest enterprise.
It is important to underline that InnovFin does not finance projects via grants but loans
InnovFin is available across all eligible sectors under Horizon 2020, in EU Member States and
Associated Countries.
More information are available here

Upcoming calls
H2020 Work Program 2016-2017 FET (Pillar I)
Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
17 Jan 2017 Fet Open FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation
8 Dec 2015
27 Sept 2017 action
12 April 2017 26 Sept 2017 Fet Flagship FETHPC-02-2017: Transition to Exascale Computing
12 April 2017 26 Sept 2017 Fet Flagship FETHPC-03-2017: Exascale HPC ecosystem development

Upcoming calls
H2020 Work Program 2016-2017 LEIT-ICT (Pillar II)
Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
ICT - A new generation of ICT-04-2017: Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative (Innovation
10 May 2016 08 Nov 2016 components and systems
Action)
27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017 ICT – Cloud Computing ICT-05-2017: Customised and low energy computing (Research
and Innovation Action)
ICT – Future Internet ICT-08-2017: 5G PPP Convergent Technologies (Research and

10 May 2016 8 Nov 2016
Innovation Action and Innovation Action)
ICT – Future Internet ICT-09-2017: Networking research beyond 5G (Research and

10 May 2016 8 Nov 2016
Innovation Action)
ICT – Future Internet ICT-11-2017: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability

08 Dec 2016 25 April 2017
and Social Innovation (Innovation Action)
ICT - Content ICT-14-2017: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual

27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017
data integration and experimentation (Innovation Action)
ICT-15-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot actions in

27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017 ICT - Content sectors best benefitting from data-driven innovation
(Innovation Action)
ICT-16-2017: Big data PPP: research addressing main
27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017 ICT - Content technology challenges of the data economy (Research and
Innovation Action)

Upcoming calls
Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
ICT-17-2016-2017: Big data PPP: Support, industrial skills,
27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017 ICT - Content benchmarking and evaluation (Research and Innovation
Action)
ICT - Content ICT-23-2017: Interfaces for Accessibility (Research and

08 Dec 2016 25 April 2017
Innovation Action)
27 Nov 2016 25 April 2017 ICT - Robotics ICT 25 - Advanced robot capabilities research and take-up
EU-Brazil EUB-01-2017: Cloud Computing (Research and Innovation

08 Nov 2016 14 Mar 2017
Action)
08 Nov 2016 14 Mar 2017 EU-Brazil EUB-02-2017: IoT Pilots (Research and Innovation Action)
A series of are being prepared for announcement by the end
of 2016 and in 2017. The specific rules of the contest are
subject to the outcome of an on-going study for the
2017 n/a ICT Prize
development and design of inducement prizes under Horizon
2020. Full details of these Horizon Prizes will be provided in
the 2016 WP revision.

Upcoming calls
H2020 Work Program 2016-2017 Focus Area
Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
IoT-03-2017: R&I on IoT integration and platforms
8 Dec 2016 25 April 2017 Internet of Things
(Research and Innovation Action)
FOF-12-2017: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs

20 Sept 2016 19 Jan 2017 Factories of the Future
(I4MS) (Innovation Action)

Upcoming calls
H2020 SME Instrument

Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
SMEInst-01-2016-2017: Open Disruptive Innovation
07 Sept 2016 Scheme – Phase 1
09 Nov 2016 Call - Horizon 2020 The call aimed at providing support to a large set of high
15 Feb 2017 dedicated SME risk innovative Startups and SMEs in the ICT sector. “Focus
26 Nov 2015
03 May 2017 Instrument 2016- will be on companies proposing disruptive ICT concepts,
06 Sept 2017 2017 products and services applying new sets of rules, values
08 Nov 2017 and models which ultimately create new markets (e.g. by
tackling non consumption) or disrupt existing markets”.
15 June 2016
13 Oct 2016 Call - Horizon 2020
18 Jan 2017 dedicated SME SMEInst-01-2016-2017: Open Disruptive Innovation
26 Nov 2015
06 April 2017 Instrument 2016- Scheme – Phase 2
01 June 2017 2017
18 Oct 2017

Upcoming calls
COSME
Opening Deadline
Call Topic
Date date
GRO/SME/16/C/12 - NEW SKILLS FOR THE DIGITAL
C. Framework Conditions
Q2 2016 n/a TRANSFORMATION OF ENTERPRISES, MANUFACTURING
for Enterprises
AND KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Attention!!!...
Deadline

Useful links
Celtic Plus - https://www.celticplus.eu/
COSME - https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/cosme
H2020 – Program sections: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-sections
H2020 – Work Program “LEIT-ICT”:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-leit-ict_en.pdf
H2020 – Work Program “Europe in a changing world”:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-societies_en.pdf
H2020 –- COST Action: http://www.cost.eu/
H2020 – EIT DIGITAL: http://www.eitdigital.eu/
H2020 – SME Instrument work program

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-
sme_en.pdf#page=7
H2020 – Innovfin: http://www.eib.org/products/blending/innovfin/?lang=en
IMI 2 - Big Data for Better Outcomes (BD4BO) Programme:

www.imi.europa.eu/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/IMI2Call7/Introduction%20to%20the%20IMI2%2
0BD4BO.pdf
IMI2 – Future topics: www.imi.europa.eu/content/future-topics
Thank you for your attention!
Interface Europe
Elisabetta Airaghi
Project Manager
Tel: +32 2 213 00 35
Email : elisabetta.airaghi@interfaceurope.eu
Natalia Rivas
Communication and Training Manager
Tel: +32 2 213 00 31
Email : natalia.rivas@interfaceurope.eu
Rue du Trône, 12
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
www.interfaceurope.eu

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Definition: what do we mean by European Digital Single Market?

1. Access 2. Environment 3. Digital Economy

 High costs of cross-  Data protection rules  Digital literacy and

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Why is it important for the European economy?

The competition of other markets (such as US and Asia countries) is fierce

A unified DSM will

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 According to the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization

2003 2010 2015 2020

* Source: ITU-T, Overview of the Internet of things Recommendation ITU-T Y.2060

Evolution of the Web vs Internet

Important difference: Internet is not the World Wide Web!

Evolution of the Web

Stage 1: ARPANET (’70 and ‘80):

Stage 2: Web 1.0 (’90 and ‘2000):

Stage 3: Web 2.0 (recent years):

Stage 4: Web 3.0 (future):

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Evolution of the Internet

Elements that makes possible this evolution include:

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Impact of the Internet of Things

Connected and Smart

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A step towards a better world?

it is possible to imagine to be able to solve great problems and empowering citizens

Output: Wisdom is knowledge plus experience

Knowledge is information someone is aware of

Information together create knowledge

Input: Individual data by itself is not very useful, but volumes of it

Cloud computing aims at outsourcing IT activities

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Pros and Cons

 Better hardware utilisation  Standards

 Bigger Software Markets  Dependeability

 Activities Monitoring  Transparency

 Higher Revenues  Security

Source: Demystifying Cloud Computing, Qusay F. Hassan, 2011

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 volume (amount of data)

New dimensions to take into consideration include:

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For the industry

- Adaptation to unified standards

For the citizens

For the regulator

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