The ICT Theme focuses on seven strategic Challenges for the seven years of FP7. These Challenges are as follows:

• Challenge 1: Pervasive and trustworthy network and service infrastructures;
• Challenge 2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics;
• Challenge 3: Components, systems, engineering;
• Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare;
• Challenge 6: ICT for mobility, environmental stability and energy efficiency;
• Challenge 7: ICT for independent living, inclusion and governance.

The ICT Call 4 seeks proposals in 19 areas which are part of the above Challenges.

Furthermore, the ICT Call 4 promotes research in three new areas of ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’, namely:

• Concurrent tera-device computing;
• Quantum information foundations and technologies;
• Biochemistry-based information technology.

Lastly, the Call includes a number of Coordination and Support actions, with particular emphasis on international cooperation in ICT with partner countries overseas.

The ICT theme has committed a budget of €801 million for this Call. The closing date for proposals is 1 April 2009, at 5 pm CET. It is expected that the first projects funded from this action will be launched in the late autumn of 2009.


Further information:

• Original press release – Europe’s Information Society Thematic Portal 
• Full call details on the CORDIS