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€2 billion in European funding goes to Graphene and Human Brain projects
Research aims to revolutionize computing and better understand the human brain...
FET Flagships are ambitious large-scale, science-driven, research initiatives that aim to achieve a visionary goal.
The scientific advance should provide a strong and broad basis for future technological innovation and economic exploitationin a variety of areas, as well as novel benefits for society.
Do Grafeno:Graphene appointed an EU Future Emerging Technology flagshipThe European Commission has chosen Graphene as one of Europe’s first 10-year, 1,000 million euro FET flagships.
The mission of Graphene is to take graphene and related layered materials from academic laboratories to society, revolutionize multiple industries and create economic growth and new jobs in Europe.
Graphene has been subject to a scientific explosion since the groundbreaking experiments on the novel material less than ten years ago, recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 to Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, at The University of Manchester. Graphene’s unique combination of superior properties makes it a credible starting point for new disruptive technologies in a wide range of fields.
Key applications are for instance fast electronic and optical devices, flexible electronics, functional lightweight components and advanced batteries. Examples of new products enabled by graphene technologies include fast, flexible and strong consumer electronics such as electronic paper and bendable personal communication devices, and lighter and more energy efficient airplanes. On the longer term, graphene is expected to give rise to new computational paradigms and revolutionary medical applications such as artificial retinas.From the start in 2013 the Graphene Flagship will coordinate 126 academic and industrial research groups in 17 European countries with an initial 30-month-budget of 54 million euro. The consortium will be extended with another 20-30 groups through an open call, issued soon after the start of the initiative, which will further strengthen the engineering aspects of the flagship.The flagship will be coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Director is Professor Jari Kinaret who will lead the research activities together with the leaders of the 15 work packages. The management team is supported by a Strategic Advisory Council that includes the European Nobel Laureates Sir Andre Geim (chairman), Albert Fert, Klaus von Klitzing and Sir Kostya Novoselov, industrial representatives from Nokia and Airbus, and two representatives of the global graphene research community.
“Although the flagship is extremely extensive, it cannot cover all areas. For example, we don’t intend to compete with Korea on graphene screens”, says the Professor Jari Kinaret at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Flagship Director. ”Graphene production, however, is obviously central to our project.”
During the 30 month ramp-up phase, the Graphene Flagship will focus on the area of communications, concentrating on ICT and on the physical transport sector, and supporting applications in the fields of energy technology and sensors. After the ramp-up phase, the flagship will grow to full size and include many new groups and activities. The details of flagship implementation after the ramp-up phase are still open and form
a part of the discussions on the Horizon 2020 research programof the European Union.
Do Cérebro Humano:Convergence of ICT and BiologyThe convergence between biology and ICT has reached a point at which it can turn tthe goal of understanding the human brain into a reality. It is this realisation that motivates the Human Brain Project – an EU Flagship initiative in which over 80 partners will work together to realise a new "ICT-accelerated" vision for brain research and its applications.
One of the major obstacles to understanding the human brain is the fragmentation of brain research and the data it produces. Our most urgent need is thus a concerted international effort that uses emerging emerging ICT technologies to integrate this data in a unified picture of the brain as a single multi-level system.
Research AreasThe HBP will make fundamental contributions to neuroscience, to medicine and to future computing technology.
In neuroscience, the project will use neuroinformatics and brain simulation to collect and integrate experimental data, identifying and filling gaps in our knowledge, and prioritising future experiments.
In medicine, the HBP will use medical informatics to identify biological signatures of brain disease, allowing diagnosis at an early stage, before the disease has done irreversible damage, and enabling personalized treatment, adapted to the needs of individual patients. Better diagnosis, combined with disease and drug simulation, will accelerate the discovery of new treatments, drastically lowering the cost of drug discovery.
In computing, new techniques of interactive supercomputing, driven by the needs of brain simulation, will impact a vast range of industries. Devices and systems, modelled after the brain, will overcome fundamental limits on the energy-efficiency, reliability and programmability of current technologies, clearing the road for systems with brain-like intelligence.
The Future of Brain ResearchApplying ICT to brain research and its applications promises huge economic and social benefits. But to realise these benefits, the technology needs to be made accessible to scientists – in the form of research platforms they can use for basic and clinical research, drug discovery and technology development. As a foundation for this effort, the HBP will build an integrated system of ICT-based research platforms, Building and operating the platforms will require a clear vision, strong, flexible leadership, long-term investment in research and engineering, and a strategy that leverages the diversity and strength of European research. It will also require continuous dialogue with civil society, creating consensus and ensuring the project has a strong grounding in ethical standards.
The Human Brain Project will last ten years and will consist of a ramp-up phase and a partially overlapping operational phase.
Que melhor forma de injectar dinheiro na economia?:Competitive Call for additional beneficiaries
Call opening: 1 October 2013Call key dates
Call opening: 1 October 2013
Deadline: 6 November 2013, 17h00 (Brussels time)
Call results: 1 February 2014
Project joining date: 1 April 2014
Project end date: 31 March 2016
Who can participateThe following are eligible to participate in the HBP Competitive Call:
any legal entity established in an EU Member State or an associated country or created under EU law;
any international European interest organisation;
any legal entity established in an FP7 international cooperation partner countries (ICPC).
International organisations,
other than an international European interest organisation, or a legal entity established in a third country other than an associated country or international cooperation partner country may also participate but without EU funding.Call topics1 - Human and mouse neural channelomics and receptomicsIndicative funding for topic: € 937,500
Number of proposals funded: 2 proposals with a maximum funding of € 468,750 each will be selected.
2 - Genotype to phenotype mapping of the mouse brainIndicative funding for topic: € 937,500
Number of proposals funded: One or two proposals with a maximum shared funding of € 937,500 will be selected.
3 - Identifying, gathering and organizing multimodal human and nonhuman neuroscience dataIndicative funding for topic: € 937,500
Number of proposals funded: 2 proposals with a maximum funding of € 468,750 each will be selected.
4 - Cognitive architecturesIndicative funding for topic: € 750,000
Number of proposals funded: 3 to 5 proposals with a maximum funding of € 250,000 each will be selected.
5 - Novel methods for rule-based clustering of medical dataIndicative funding for topic: € 937,500
Number of proposals funded: 4 proposals with a maximum funding of € 234,375 each will be selected.
6 - Neural configurations for neuromorphic computing systemsndicative funding for topic: € 581,250
Number of proposals funded: 5 proposals with a maximum funding of €116,250 each will be selected.
7 - Virtual robotic environments, agents, sensory & motor systemsIndicative funding for topic: € 2,493,750
Number of proposals funded: One to three proposals will be funded, depending on the number of elements of the toolkit covered. The maximum funding for each element of the toolkit will be € 831,250.
8 - Theory of multiscale circuitsIndicative funding for topic: € 768,750
Number of proposals funded: Four proposals with a maximum funding of € 192,187 each will be selected.
