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 non-conventional nature. 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.
The FET Communication "Moving the frontiers of ICT – a strategy for research on future and emerging technologies in Europe" 33 sets out new lines of action for FET. Accordingly, this Work Programme extends the scope and ambition of the two complementary FET schemes:
- FET Open scheme: challenging current thinking and attracting future potential
- FET Proactive scheme: tackling targeted transformative research and exploring new large-scale scientific challenges and cooperation models
FET-Open is specifically designed to be open and responsive to such fresh courageous thinking. It aims to give promising but still fragile ideas the opportunity to mature into a credible and well-founded new direction of research.
FET-Open scheme features the following objectives:
> Objective ICT-2011.9.1: Challenging current Thinking
> Objective ICT-2011.9.2: High-Tech Research Intensive SMEs in FET research
> Objective ICT-2011.9.3: FET Young Explorers
> Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research
FET Proactive spearheads transformative research, supports community building and enhances Europe's innovation potential around a number of fundamental long-term challenges in ICT.
FET proactive scheme features the following objectives:
> Objective ICT-2011.9.5: FET Flagship Initiative Preparatory Actions
> Objective ICT-2011 9.6: FET Proactive: Unconventional Computation (UCOMP)
> Objective ICT-2011.9.7: FET Proactive: Dynamics of Multi-Level Complex Systems (DyM-CS)
> Objective ICT-2011.9.8: FET Proactive: Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit (MINECC)
> Objective ICT-2011 9.9: FET Proactive: Quantum ICT (QICT) including ERA-NET-Plus
Objective ICT-2011 9.10: FET Proactive: Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FOCAS)
> Objective ICT-2011 9.11: FET Proactive: Neuro-Bio-Inspired Systems (NBIS)
> Objective ICT-2011.9.12: Coordinating Communities, Identifying new research topics for FET Proactive initiatives and Fostering Networking of National and Regional Research Programmes
> Objective ICT-2011.9.13 Exa-scale computing, software and simulation
> Objective ICT-2011.9.14 'Science of Global Systems'
