Objectives and priorities
Key Action II will reinforce
European Union policies and priorities as set out in the Lisbon,
Stockholm and Gothenburg summits, by ensuring that Europe plays
a prominent role in shaping and capitalising on the next wave
of work and business innovations.
Research priorities are based
on the IST Programme's vision of exploring and validating novel
solutions and practices for a global networked economy in which
workers and organisations interact easily and dynamically through
a secure and reliable ubiquitous ICT infrastructure.
The Action Lines for the Call
for Proposals in 2002 aim to:
- Encourage visionary high risk/long
term research in all Key Action II areas;
- Prepare the ground for future
large-scale RTD activities under the next Framework Programme
(FP6) by bringing together key actors to develop consensus on
RTD challenges, their roadmaps, constituencies and implementation
models;
- Support activities to progress
the eEurope and eEurope+ initiative in areas related to Key Action
II.
In this fast-moving domain
of IST it is important to maintain a long-term perspective so
as to strengthen European leadership and to support activities
likely to lead to exploitable RTD results in 5 to 7 years.
Action Lines in 2002
All Action Lines span Key Action
II. They are complementary and open to international co-operation
where there is clear European benefit. In addition, all Key Action
II areas are open to RTD and thematic network proposals under
the "Intelligent Manufacturing Initiative" (IMS). Work
in Key Action II on IMS is complementary to the activities of
Key Action I of the "Competitive and Sustainable Growth
Programme " in the area of "Innovative Products, Processes
and Organisation".
Proposals addressing interdisciplinary
work that cuts across Action Lines are strongly encouraged.
Action Line Descriptions
IST2002 - II.1.1 Exploratory
high risk/long term research
Objectives: To explore visionary
and interdisciplinary high risk/long term research challenges
that combine significant technological innovation with novel
practices (individual or organisational) and advanced business
and work models.
Focus:
Novel and emerging technologies
for trust and confidence (addressing in particular pluggable
encryption, Grid/Peer-to-Peer computing), (mobile) business computing,
new organisational models, organisational knowledge management
and e-work.
Proposed exploitation plans will be evaluated, taking into account
the longer-term, exploratory nature of work to be undertaken
under this Action Line.
Types of Actions addressed: Research and Development
Links with WP2001: Continuation of Action Line II.1.4
IST2002 - II.1.2 Strategic
roadmaps for applied research
Objectives: To prepare the
ground for RTD activities beyond FP5 by investigating future
research challenges, roadmaps and associated implementation models
in the domain of e-business and e-work. This will require networking
or the creation of constituencies of RTD stakeholders including
researchers from industry and academia, technology providers,
business and public administration end users, consumer organisations,
policymakers, standardisation bodies, etc. Challenges may be
identified in any of the following areas:
- Technologies for key security
challenges, such as basic security mechanisms, advanced cryptography,
privacy enhancing technologies, technologies to handle digital
assets, technologies for dependability to support business functions
in dynamic and mobile environments and security in Grid/Peer-to-Peer
applications;
- Future e-work systems, such
as new workplace concepts incorporating innovative technologies
to facilitate creativity and collaboration, to increase resource-use
efficiency and to extend work opportunities to all;
- Organisations and e-business, e.g. technologies to support
organisational process management and decision-making, organisational
agility and co-operation and workflow in highly dynamic and mobile
networks of businesses and public administrations;
- Organisational knowledge management
including context- and location-sensitive solutions for acquisition,
sharing, trading, and delivery of knowledge to support worker
and business innovation and entrepreneurship;
- Next generation electronic
and mobile commerce, including dynamic market-driven value creation
models, technologies and solutions for the development of highly
customised products and services, and e-market mediation systems;
- Models and scenarios to shape
future policies for a knowledge-based economy; technology development
and deployment strategies, demand for new skills, competencies
and associated training requirements; social and economic research
on the transition to a knowledge-based economy, including support
for achieving the social objectives of the Lisbon, Stockholm
and Gothenburg strategies
Focus:
Activities will focus on the
following tasks:
- Building and strengthening
RTD communities that bring together research, business and user
organisations with the aim of developing shared visions, scenarios
and objectives and facilitating the integration of European research
resources to address major future business and work challenges;
- Identifying research tasks
for both objective-driven and exploratory research. Work should
also help to identify and explore the set of complementary activities
required to improve RTD impact. These include links to other
research frameworks, innovation and take-up actions, training
and mobility, standardisation, dissemination activities and the
integration of international efforts.
Work will involve identifying
the key actors in the field, stimulating interest and achieving
broad-based consensus on the way forward to meet the research
challenges. It could reinforce existing communities (e.g. clusters
of IST research projects, national or industrial initiatives),
or aim to build new constituencies. Work is expected to last
up to 15 months.
Types of Actions addressed: Accompanying Measures (excluding
take-up), Thematic Networks
Links with WP2001: New Action Line
IST2002 - II.1.3 Addressing
eEurope and eEurope+ objectives
Objectives: To support the
broad adoption of IST solutions for e-commerce and e-work, including
the security of on-line transactions, greater flexibility in
work organisation and better access to e-work facilities for
local and virtual communities, and for SMEs, thus contributing
to the realisation of eEurope and eEurope+ objectives.
Focus:
- Best practice actions for
trust, security, e-work, organisational knowledge management
and process improvement (private and public);
- Best practice actions and
trials aiming at the integration of European Early Warning Systems
for network and information security.
- Demonstrations of cross-border
interoperable security solutions, contracting, invoicing, taxation,
dispute resolution, intellectual property rights, on-line services,
accounting and privacy-enhancing applications;
- Helping SMEs to use Information
Society technologies ("GoDigital");
- Encouraging the participation
of Accession States (eEurope+).
Types of Actions addressed:
Thematic Networks, Demonstrations, Trials, Best practice and
other non Take-up Accompanying Measures
Links with WP2001: New Action Line. |