Executive summary ITEA programme report 2005

Executive Summary

ITEA Programme Report 2005 (January - December 2005)

This Programme Report summarises the results achieved from 1 January to 31 December 2005. To complement this report, up-to-date statistical information will be available in the password-protected area of our website.

Project Overview

ITEA’s current project portfolio – Calls 1 to 8 – consists of 88 projects: 48 are completed, 40 are on-going or in launch. This takes no account of the 22 projects that have been stopped.

	Call 1	Call 2	Call 3	Call 4	Call 5	Call 6	Call 7	Call 8	Total
Stopped	4	2		2	6	5	3		22
Completed	14	5	8	8	13				48
In launch & On-going						10	17	13	34
Total	18	7	8	10	19	15	20	13	110

ITEA project portfolio and status as of January 2006

During 2005, 25 project reviews were conducted, all with very positive results. Under Calls 6, 7 and 8 projects are still in launch or running (see next table).

	Call 6		Call 7		Call 8
Labelling date	November 2003		November 2004		November 2005
	No. of projects	Person-years	No. of projects	Person-years	No. of projects	Person-years
Projects labelled	15	2,265	20	3,340	13	2,200
Status December 2005	11	980	18	2,436	13	2,200
Forecast December 2005	9	976	14	1,682	9	1,027

Status of Call 6, 7 and 8 projects as of January 2006

The total amount of effort is estimated at around 9,500 person-years for all Calls 1 to 8 (table below); 2005 was to date the most successful year ever in terms of effort.

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Total
Call 1	212	841	709	93	2							1,856
Call 2		72	221	165	17							474
Call 3			332	626	344	56						1,358
Call 4				178	307	114	12					611
Call 5					427	766	387					1,581
Call 6						235	471	238	32			976
Call 7							449	784	372	78		1,682
Call 8								336	393	285	13	1,027
Total	212	913	1,261	1,062	1,096	1,172	1,319	1,358	796	363	13	9,567

Effort forecast (December 2005) for total programme ITEA Calls 1 to 8

ITEA 2

The ITEA 2 Blue Book – rationale, vision, scope, strategy, ambition, etc. – was published in September 2005. ITEA 2 received its EUREKA label during the EUREKA High Level Group (HLG) meeting in Prague on 20 October, under the number Σ! 3674. The ambitions of ITEA 2 are based on:

The experience in the current ITEA programme with the willingness of partners – large companies, SMEs, universities and research labs – to invest in ITEA’s co-operative research;

The need to close the gap in R&D investment (3% of gross GDP, Lisbon objective); and

The shift to software in R&D.

	ITEA highlights	ITEA 2 ambitions
Number of (annual) Calls	8	8
Effort in person-years	9,500	8
Expenditure (€ billion)	1.2	8
Number of projects	85
Number of participants	400 - 45% SMEs - 28% research institutes and universities	800 - 50% SMEs - 25% research institutes and universities
Exploitation (references to products / results for internal use / licences / open sources)	450	1,000
Standardisation actions	150	250
Dissemination (publications / conferences)	1,650	4,000

ITEA highlights and ITEA 2 ambitions

The shift to software in R&D was one of the major outcomes of the IDATE-TNO study on ‘Software-Intensive Systems in the Future’. The worldwide growth in R&D investments in five key industrial sectors from 2002 to 2015 is forecast to be 73%. In the same period, the worldwide spend on software R&D in these sectors is forecast to grow by 128%! An ‘ITEA 2 Brief’ (also called ‘Political Paper’), based upon this study, was prepared in seven languages and distributed to the higher political levels to promote ITEA 2 further.

In order to introduce ITEA 2, we visited the Public Authority Directors in the key ITEA countries. Our plans were well received; the Directors’ comments will be used to enhance the ITEA 2 programme further. A crucial area for improvement is the Call process in terms of throughput time and synchronisation. The renewed Call process will also be prepared for use in ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence & Systems), the European Technology Platform (ETP) on embedded systems.

In mid December 2005, the first Call for ITEA 2 Projects was pre-announced by email to almost 4,000 contacts, supported by a press mailing. The Call officially opened with a Project Outline preparation meeting in Brussels on 2 and 3 February 2006, with 184 participants.

EUREKA

This year, EUREKA celebrated its 20th anniversary. A series of events took place, of which a major occasion was the EUREKA Forum in October in Prague. The Netherlands handed over the Chairmanship to the Czech Republic during the HLG meeting in June.

ARTEMIS

ETPs are foreseen as one of the new means of supporting transnational co-operation under the EU Seventh Framework for RTD (FP7), which will run from 2007 to 2013. Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) are long term public-private partnerships as part of ETPs. JTIs are supposed to be primarily industry-driven. There are six JTIs under consideration: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, Aeronautics and Air Transport, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, Innovative Medicine, Embedded Systems (ARTEMIS) and Nanoelectronics (ENIAC).

The ARTEMIS ETP is very active. The chairman of ITEA 2 is a member of the ARTEMIS Steering Board. Several publications have been published, a website is on-line and the short version of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is already available. The Working Group Funding Strategy worked out a ‘two pillar’ structure with the traditional Framework Programme (FP) instruments in one pillar and a JTI – an ITEA-/MEDEA-like structure with additional EU and national funding contributions – in the other. The results were well received in the ARTEMIS Steering Group as well as in the Mirror Group. The ITEA 2 organisation and processes will have to be designed in such a way that a smooth transfer to ARTEMIS will be possible if substantial funds become available for the JTI.

PR & Communications

Publications

In 2005, we published the ITEA 2 Blue Book and the ‘ITEA 2 Brief’ (also called ‘ITEA 2 Political Paper’). At the beginning of 2006, we launched a new, restyled and updated website for ITEA 2. At the same time, we published a leaflet on ITEA 2, explaining briefly what ITEA 2 does and how to participate in the programme.

6th Symposium – ITEA and the next wave in the digital transition

Our sixth Symposium, with the overall theme ‘ITEA and the next wave in the digital transition’, took place in Helsinki, Finland on 13 and 14 October 2005. The introduction of ITEA 2 was one of the highlights of the symposium. Some 300 participants attended the lively two-day event, which emphasised the vitality of ITEA, with presentations from politicians, industrialists and academics, demonstrations from some 40 projects in the exhibition, and three parallel technical workshops on software-engineering solutions, new businesses and trends in new media that allowed exhibitors to share their experiences. The ITEA Board selected the TT-MEDAL project (Test & testing methodologies for advanced languages) as the winner of the ITEA 2005 Achievement Award.

Organisational issues

Changing of the guard in the ITEA Chairmanship

After almost six years at the ITEA helm, Paul Mehring stepped down as Chairman of the ITEA Board during the ITEA Symposium in Helsinki and handed over the Chairmanship to Rudolf Haggenmüller. The ITEA 2 organisation certainly regrets Paul’s departure. Through his enormous drive, commitment and energy, he has raised the profile of ITEA to that of the premium pan-European programme for software-intensive systems and left the organisation in perfect shape for the next step: ITEA 2.

ITEA 2 welcomes Rudolf Haggenmüller as the new Chairman. Rudolf is Professor of Informatics and Mathematics at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and managing director of FAST GmbH.

Changing ITEA’s Vice-Chairmanship

Jean-Pierre Lacotte has been ITEA’s Vice-Chairman since January 2003. In addition to his role in ITEA and his responsibility as Director for European Advanced Projects Coordination at THOMSON R&I, Jean-Pierre was also heavily involved in the French HDTV platform as Chairman. We certainly regret his departure from ITEA in June 2005. We thank him for his very valuable contributions to the current ITEA programme and to the definition of the follow-up programme ITEA 2.

Gérard Roucairol succeeded him in this position as of 1 July 2005. Gérard is currently Chief Scientist and Member of the Executive Committee of the Bull group.

ITEA 2 organisation

Within the ITEA 2 organisation, we welcome our two new founding partners Airbus and Telvent:

Representatives for Airbus: Board: Sylvain Prudhomme; Board Support Group (BSG): Patrick Farail; Steering Group (STG): Marie-Line Valentin.

Representatives for Telvent: Board: Juan Manuel Martinez Perez; BSG and STG: Jésus Bermejo Muñoz.

Further organisational changes:

Alcatel: Jacques Magen was replaced by Eric Perrin-Pelletier on the Board and by Alain Carenco in the BSG.

Barco: Board member Frans Claerbout has been replaced by Luc Desimpelaere.

Bull: Board member Geraldine Capdeboscq will be replaced by Jean-François Leprince Ringuet.

DaimlerChrysler: Board member Wolfgang Merker (Horst Soboll) has been replaced by Klaus Grimm.

European Federation of High Tech SMEs: STG member Harm Smit was replaced by Daniel Pillaud.

Italtel: STG member Andrea Colaiemma has been replaced by Moreno Sioli.

Nokia: BSG member Tapio Tallgren has been replaced by Heikki Saikkonen.

Philips: Board member Jan Lohstroh has been replaced by Aart van Gorkum.

Thomson: BSG member Robert Havas has been replaced by Thierry Plassard.

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