SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 1 – HEALTH ............................................................................................. 2
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 2 – FOOD .............................................................................................. 22
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 3 – ENERGY ........................................................................................... 23
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 4 – TRANSPORT .................................................................................... 29
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 5 – CLIMATE ......................................................................................... 42
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 6 – IIS ................................................................................................... 44
SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 7 – SECURITY ........................................................................................ 75
Societal Challenge 1 – Health
3. Advancing active and healthy ageing will support activities which extend active and independent living, allow for early detection of risk-factors (for example based on analysis of behavioural data, functional capacity, frailty) and propose new types of interventions.
3a Deployment of ICT solutions for older people with cognitive impairments
Specific challenge:
The rapid ageing of the population increases the prevalence of people suffering from cognitive impairments which has major negative consequences for quality of life of citizens and their carers as well as on the sustainability of care systems. This is evidenced by the work of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) which has identified innovation in support of cognitive impairments as a priority area to be addressed.
Research and innovation in ICT solutions for cognitive impairments have demonstrated the potential to help address this challenge, but further efforts are required to help translate these results into scalable practice across Europe.
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Societal Challenge 2 – Food
Food Chain Data Standardisation
Specific challenge: The EU’s General Food Law makes traceability compulsory for food and feed operators and requires businesses to implement traceability systems, which record all movement of product and steps within the whole food chain by means of tracking media. An easy-to-apply and low-cost Europe-wide data system of standard identifiers for individual food items is needed for food recall by producers, food information and feedback by consumers, and other up- or downstream announcements. A standard, reliable and essentially context-free method to recognise identifiers as identifiers for food items is needed, together with standard and reliable methods for allowing food producers to work in complete independence from one another to generate unique logical identifiers. (761 of max. 1500 characters)
Scope:
The goals are to develop (i) standard sets of concepts (ontologies) and (ii) interoperable systems of internet-enabled standard identifiers for individual food items for the recording of information and the transmission and processing of messages at all stages of the food chain, from tagging at the point of production until the point of consumption – all based on already available systems for food identification, description and classification. The system should serve as an enabling platform for new service processes, creating value for all food chain actors. Note that the goal is neither to build a platform where all such data would be hosted – which is for individual industrial actors – nor to physically associate an identifier with a food item. The centre of gravity of the project should be R&D activities, also showing the technical feasibility of the approach in a simulated environment. (902 of max. 1000 characters)
Societal Challenge 3 – Energy
I) Focus area: Energy Efficiency
A – Advancing design and evaluation of energy efficient building via interoperability of ICT tools
Specific Challenge: Building energy performance simulation (BEPS) models, are proven to be very useful to compare buildings design alternatives. Designs are made by architects using CAD systems now enhanced with energy efficiency additional features. Building Energy Management systems (BEMS) are installed in the majority of complex buildings and maintenance is also supported by digital tools. However data doesn't flow seamlessly between these systems. Ideally, Energy Modelling data should be exported to the Building Energy Management Systems that optimize energy consumption at operational stage. In turn these systems need to obtain data from sensor clouds and energy meters, and be able to command intelligent appliances (e.g. white goods, micro and mini energy renewable sources, HVAC systems). To facilitate an incremental investment of consumers in energy management appliances a strong plug and play principle is needed. Finally, prosumers will trade with the Smart Grid their energy consumption in a free market with a language that needs to be independent of the utility
Societal Challenge 4 – Transport
ROAD
Objective 1: Connectivity for sustainable mobility (Call 2015)
The objective focuses on the sustainability gains achievable by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the past 20 years, enormous progress was achieved in applying ICT to vehicles. Initially, the focus was on safety, resulting in stand-alone Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Cooperative Systems. More recently, the energy efficiency issue rose in importance, due to the threats of climate change and human health. Connectivity for sustainable mobility needs to address both stand-alone and cooperative systems.
Looking forward to the next 20 years, driver will remain in control of vehicles: thus the promised effects will greatly depend on how drivers use the systems provided. To address sustainability and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, research in the short term needs to address green driving support systems challenging the driver to adopt a green driving style. A green driving style can add up to another 15% of CO2 reduction to already ‘green’ vehicles.
This approach must go hand in hand with research objectives on increased automation in road transport, another main contributor to sustainable mobility.
Societal Challenge 5 – Climate
FOR WATER:
Objective 1 (2014-2015), call 2014: Laying foundations for a Water Information System, (INSPIRE compliant)
To harmonize existing water specific conceptual models, partially developed under directive INSPIRE, in Europe towards specifications (conceptualisation and design) of a technology independent and open reference model of the water resources information system. The first step (2014-2015) consists of finding of new solutions to achieve interoperability between existing systems and develop new connectivity standards. One step further, the developed ontologies and the new interoperable solutions should be linked to the applications used in the water sector.
Topics to be addressed: ontologies, semantic interoperability, GIS, business modelling, DSS, and management tools.
Expected impact: to create a common language in the water sector and to overcome its fragmentation
Proposed instrument: (big) Collaborative project
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Societal Challenge 6 – IIS
Call 2 - Reflective societies: cultural heritage
Today, studies contributing to the understanding of Europe's intellectual basis, cultural identity and history necessarily rely more and more on digital expressions of culture and identity. In parallel, digital technologies offer new tools and enable novel approaches, both for researchers and the interested public. This specific challenge is about tapping the potential of ICT for facilitating access to and preservation of European cultural heritage and allowing richer interpretations of the European culture and identity.
1 - Accessing and understanding Europe's cultural heritage
Specific challenge
Collections in archives, museums and at cultural heritage sites contain a wealth of digital texts, images, audio-visual content and 3D representations of objects or sceneries largely inaccessible to both computers and humans: Humans can easily extract meaning from individual digital artefacts but are quickly overwhelmed by the current sheer number of items. Computers can process large amounts of data but are not yet very good at extracting meaning from them. To close, or at least narrow, this "semantic gap" would present a major step forward in digital humanities and social sciences.
Societal Challenge 7 – Security
The European Strategy for Cybersecurity highlights a set of actions to be implemented by the European Commission to "…develop the industrial and technological resources for cybersecurity…", "… promoting a Single Market for cybersecurity products…", and "… fostering R&D investments…". This call will be one of the instrument to reach these aims.
Cyber-security is a multi-faceted issue (involving critical economic and civilian stakes; cybercrime; defence; human rights protection; norms of behaviour). The proposed activities in this domain address the economic and societal dimension of security in the digital ecosystem, for the purposes of ensuring the well-functioning of the internal market. This work contributes to the efforts being done in the other areas relevant to cyber-security.
Securing the digital society must be our central concern. It entails preventing cyber-attacks on any component of the digital society (networks, access devices, IT services, ….) no matter what their nature or origin; as well as protecting physical (e.g. critical infrastructures) or intangible assets (e.g. finances, intellectual property, privacy). As a consequence this call addresses the technology to secure the infrastructure (e.g. networks), hardware (e.g. access devices), services (e.g. cloud computing), components (e.g. RFID), software (e.g. operating systems, web-browsers), etc… against accidental or malevolent use. As cybersecurity is cross-domain the call will provide cybersecurity whatever the application or domain (mobile, eCommerce…), or societal challenge (e.g. health, energy, smart cities, …).
This Objective will thus focus on demonstrating the viability and maturity of state-of-the-art security solutions with the intention that after this validation phase they will find a wide up take in the market. Proving that the security concepts, processes and solutions work in a real life environment, in large scale demonstrators and directly involving end users who would ultimately benefit the most from the outcome, should increase the prospects for an ICT security market and demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of security. This in turn will reduce the risks of a negative economic impact due to a cyber-incident.
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