Executive summary ITEA 2 intermediate programme report 2007

Executive Summary

Intermediate Programme Report 2007 (January - June 2007)

This Intermediate Programme Report summarises the results achieved in the first half of 2007. To complement this report, up-to-date statistical information will be available in the password-protected area of our website.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The total planned effort in the ITEA programme is still expected to be slightly over 10,000 person-years. The ambition for ITEA 2 is a total of 20,000 person-years. Call 1 is a high Call with 2,469 person-years, but Call 2 will probably be smaller. This is a continuation of the trend in ITEA of alternating large and small calls. Moreover, the first call for the European Seventh Framework programme (FP7) closed in May 2007, which is likely to have an additional effect on the size of Call 2 of ITEA 2.

ITEA’s current project portfolio – Calls 1 to 8 – consists of 84 projects: 59 are completed, 25 are on-going or in launch.

	Call 1	Call 2	Call 3	Call 4	Call 5	Call 6	Call 7	Call 8	Total
Stopped	4	2		2	6	6	5	1	26
Completed	14	5	8	8	13	7	4		59
In launch & On-going						2	11	12	25
Total	18	7	8	10	19	15	20	13	110

ITEA's project portfolio and status as of 31 August 2007

ITEA 2’s current project portfolio – Call 1 – consists of 17 projects that are in launch or on-going. Call 2 – opened on 24 January – resulted in 21 Project Outlines (POs), of which 17 were accepted for proposing a full project proposal (FPP).

	Call 1	Call 2	Total
Stopped
Completed
In launch & On-going	17		17
Total	17		17

ITEA 2's project portfolio and status as of 31 August 2007

INTER-CLUSTER / INTER-PDC CALL

Based on an initiative in some ITEA countries intended to provide more explicit support for regional focusing activities such as clusters and Poles de Compétitivité (PdCs), the ITEA 2 community supported a new Call for Inter-Cluster / Inter-PdC projects. This additional Call was issued in June, and the proposals should join the regular ITEA 2 process for FPPs in the second half of 2007.

ITEA 2 SYMPOSIUM 2007

“Using ICT to deal with major societal challenges”

The ITEA 2 Symposium 2007 will be held in Berlin on 18 and 19 October. The symposium programme is scheduled around this year’s overall theme: ‘Using ICT to deal with major societal challenges’. For the first time, we will open the second day of the Symposium to the general public. Our goal is to attract an even larger audience for e.g. keynote speakers and the exhibition. Hence day one will maintain the character of a ‘family day’ for people already involved in ITEA / ITEA 2.

ARTEMIS

We are still working on the clarification of the relationship between ITEA 2 and the Advanced Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems (ARTEMIS) initiative, and considering alignment if and where that makes sense. We try to support the ARTEMIS initiative so that it contributes to and builds on the continuing success of ITEA. Specifically, we are discussing the options to organise the annual events of ITEA 2 and ARTEMIS in such a way that we do not confuse our target groups. In addition, we have arranged for some alignment between the next ITEA 2 Roadmap and the ARTEMIS Research Agenda, by involving certain experts in both activities. Finally, for 2007, we have installed a Service Level Agreement with the ARTEMIS Industrial Association (ARTEMISIA) to support the ARTEMIS initiatives from the ITEA 2 Office. We will evaluate the relationship again at the end of 2007.

ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES

The following organisational changes occurred:

Barco: Steering group (STG) member Patrick Vandenberghe has been succeeded by Dominique Segers;
DaimlerChrysler: Board support group (BSG) member Berthold Ulmer has been succeeded by Goesta Pfundtner;
DaimlerChrysler: STG member Harbhajan Singh has been succeeded by Jens Herrmann;
Telvent: Jesús Bermejo Muñoz has been succeeded by Ramon Gonzalez Carvajal as STG member. He will continue his membership of the ITEA 2 Board and BSG;
Thales: STG member Virginie Watine has been succeeded by Vania Conan;
ITEA 2 Office: Kees van Mourik has been succeeded by Fopke Klok as ITEA 2 Office Director as of June;
ITEA 2 Office: Kay Jeunhomme succeeded Anne van der Linden – PR & Communications – in the ITEA 2 Office team as of June;
ITEA 2 Office: Stephan van Stekelenburg – assistant webmaster – has left the ITEA 2 Office team as of August;

ITEA 2 thanks all departing colleagues for their contributions and welcomes the new members of the BSG, STG and Office.