Digitizing and transforming European industry and services
Information and Communication Technology has a huge potential for future digitization of products, services and industrial processes in terms of wellbeing, growth and creation of jobs. Advances related to digitisation, underpinned by key enabling technologies (KETs), is trasforming industry and providing solutions to several major societal challenges. The Internet of Things, Big Data, Cloud, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence are among the most prominent themes supported by H2020.
Expected impact
COMPONENTS OF THE FOCUS AREA
The focus area is implemented with the instruments of:
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies – ICT:
LEIT-ICT is supporting digital innovations aimed at fostering:
- the acceleration of the design, development and uptake of advanced digital technologies by European industry in products that include innovative electronic components, software and systems, and especially in sectors where digital technologies are underexploited;
- an improved uptake of photonics and robotics technologies by end-user industry;
- the take-up of manufacturing platforms by SMEs.
Budget: € 461 million
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies – Space:
Activities are including:
- new applications of space robotics for orbital and planetary use,
- in the domain of satellite communications, the targets are secure satellite communications, high speed processing, flexible telecommunication payloads and optical communications for very high throughput systems,
- satellite navigation applications are contributing to digitisation of products and services in mass markets and adoption of innovative features such as better multipath resistance and authentication.
Budget: € 59 million
The part of NMBP concerning ICT is supporting:
- open innovation test beds, which enable the upscaling and uptake of nanotechnology and advanced materials in industrial products and applications,
- test beds for computational modelling and characterization, which reduce dramatically the need for experimental validation,
- the transition to a flexible, digitised, resource-efficient and demand-driven manufacturing sector reflecting the fourth industrial revolution.
Budget: € 703 million
Societal Challenge 1 - 'Health, demographic change and wellbeing' (SC1):
Activities of Societal Challenges 1 are adressing the need for secure and user-driven ICT-based solutions in early risk detection and interventions with big data approaches that enable aggregation of a variety of new and existing data sources such as medical records, registries, social platforms and other environmental, physiological and behavioural data. It aims at offering solutions for smart living environments and smart hospitals.
Budget: € 60 million
ICT have the potential to transform production systems in aquaculture, agriculture and the related food value chains and to contribute to healthier and more sustainable diets. They also provide considerable development opportunities for rural and coastal areas arising from better connectivity, increased social inclusiveness and openings for new business models. Activities under SC2 are looking for improving knowledge and innovation systems, speeding up the rate of knowledge creation based in the potential of the use of data. Improving interoperability would allow for increased data sharing and the resulting knowledge generation in farming, food and nutrition systems, both terrestrial and aquatic.
Budget: € 107 million
Societal Challenge 3 - 'Secure, clean and efficient energy' (SC3):
These new and smarter technologies are integrating renewable energies from variable and distributed resources in the energy systems and increase efficiency through better monitoring and optimisation of assets. Moreover, these technologies can provide an opportunity for the uptake of new energy services and business models enabling consumers in the active participation in the energy system and energy markets. The promoted key issues are:
- the interoperability of communication to and from the appliance/device in a smart home to enable smart energy services, possibly combined with other services for consumers;
- the ability of the energy sector to handle much larger amounts of data than they currently do and use them to optimise the system.
- the cybersecurity since in such a market with a lot more data, and remote control actions linked to them, the reliability of the grid and of the communication channels becomes critical for a secure network operation.
Budget: € 30 million
Societal Challenge 4 - 'Smart, green and integrated transport' (SC4):
Actions focus on large-scale demonstrations to test the performance and safety of innovative highly automated driving systems for passenger cars, efficient freight transport operations and shared mobility services in urban areas.
Budget: € 103 million
Societal Challenge 6 - 'Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies' (SC6):
Actions under these topics are aimed at developing ICT-enabled solutions for the delivery of new forms of public goods and inclusive public services, addressing the challenge of migrant integration through ICT-enabled solutions, collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion and the curation of digital assets. They address the impact of digital transformations on governance and the delivery of public services as well as on children and youth.
Budget: € 166 million
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