The Framework Programmes (FPs) have been the main financial tools through which the European Union supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines
FPs have been implemented since 1984 and cover a period of five years with the last year of one FP and the first year of the following FP overlapping. The current FP is FP6, which will be running up to the end of 2006. It has been proposed for FP7, however, to run for seven years.
Two of the specific programmes are:
ICT - Information and Communication Technologies
The draft Work Programme for ICT research in FP7 in 2007 and 2008 is now available online
Security
Source text: DRAFT WORK PROGRAMME 2007-08 EUROPEAN COMMISSION (7th Framework)d)
Identity management and privacy enhancing tools with configurable, contextdependent and user-controlled attributes in static and dynamically changing environments; trust policies for managing and assessing the risks associated to identity and private data.
e) Longer term visions and research roadmaps; metrics and benchmarks for comparative evaluation and open technology competitions, in support of certification and standardisation; international cooperation and co-ordination with developed countries; coordination with related national or regional programmes or initiatives and;
coordination of FP7 projects addressing security, dependability, privacy and related ethical issues across different challenges and objectives of this work programme.
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• ICT users empowered to handle their digital identity and personal data and to protect their privacy,
turning the European view on privacy into an economic advantage; strengthened trust in the use of networks, software and services for governments, businesses and consumers.
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b) Cooperating objects and
Wireless Sensor Networks: spontaneous cooperation of objects in spatial proximity in order to jointly execute a given task. This will require
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new methods and algorithms to support different cooperation concepts and modes;
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hardware/software platforms including operating systems or kernels and communication protocols to enable distributed optimal execution; and
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programming abstractions and support tools to facilitate third party programming of self-organising systems composed of heterogeneous objects. Research challenges also include dynamic resource discovery and management, semantics that allow object/service definition and querying for data and resources, advanced control that makes the systems reactive to the physical world, as well as security and privacy-enabling features. While the developed technology should be generic, it should be driven by an entire class of ambitious future applications in which scalability and deployment should be addressed. International cooperation on foundational research with the USA and other countries is encouraged.
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Architectures and technologies for personalised distribution, presentation and consumption of self-aware, adaptive content. Detecting and exploiting emergent ambient intelligence they will use features embedded in content objects and rendering equipment to enable dynamic device adaptation, immersive multimodal experiences and contextual support of user goals and linguistic preferences.
Privacy preserving learning algorithms will analyse user interactions with devices and other users so as to update and effectively serve those goals and preferences..
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