This Programme Report 2010 covers progress, highlights and issues for the ITEA 2 Programme over 2010, as well as ambitions for 2011 and beyond. Chapter 1 outlines the main achievements, events and challenges of ITEA 2. Chapter 2 deals with call progress and figures. Furthermore, it describes the new projects in Call 5.
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
After five call cycles in ITEA 2, 21 projects have finished and 31 projects are currently active, while 25 projects have been labelled and are still in launch/start-up phase. The high number of projects in start-up phase can be explained by the fact that funding decisions for Call 4 have been exceptionnaly delayed. Therefore a reduction of the total effort in Call 4 can be expected. In total, ITEA 2 now comprises 12,295 person-years, based on current labelled Full Project Proposals (FPPs).
PO PREPARATION DAYS CALL 5
ITEA 2 Call 5 opened on 1 February with the Project Outline (PO) preparation days in Berlin, Germany on 1 and 2 February. Compared with 2009, the number of participants grew by 30% to 279 from 20 countries. The event resulted in 30 project ideas being presented during the concluding plenary session.
12 YEARS OF ITEA
At the 2010 Co-summit we published the ITEA “Golden book” - 12 years of ITEA. Achievements & results of the EUREKA programmes ITEA & ITEA 2. In this book the results of the ITEA projects demonstrate clearly that the ITEA programme realises its ambitions: tangible results, innovation, business impact and fast exploitation.
Important domains where the ITEA Programme has shown a strong impact are Automotive, Healthcare and Wellbeing, Entertainment & Services, Security & Safety, Web of Objects and Software Engineering.
ITEA & ARTEMIS CO-SUMMIT 2010
‘Mobile and cloud power enabling massive scalability and opportunities for growth’ was the theme of the third ITEA and ARTEMIS Co-summit. Over 600 R&D actors and policy makers from industry, research organisations, academia and public authorities from Europe and further afield gathered in Ghent, Belgium on 26 and 27 October. The event was a success with an attractive conference programme and an exhibition of 70 projects (ITEA and ARTEMIS). The reaction to the event was positive, with an overall score of 3.6 out of 5. Compared with last year’s event, 29% rated the 2010 Co-summit better and 58% similar.
ORGANISATIONAL CHANGES
The following organisational changes occurred:
The ITEA 2 Presidium thanks all departing colleagues for their contributions and welcomes the new members of Board, BSG and STG.
AMBITIONS FOR THE ITEA PROGRAMME
Following the release of three elements in the preparation for ITEA 3 – the Roadmap edition 3, the 12 years of ITEA book and the joint document on ITEA and ARTEMIS, the ambition for 2011 will be the creation of ITEA 3.
The companies represented on the ITEA 2 Board and those which will join as founding companies for ITEA 3 are committed to the continued success of the ITEA programme, and to contributing to its continuous improvement in good co-operation with the Public Authorities and with other organisations and programmes – competitiveness clusters (PdCs), European and Joint Undertaking (JU) programmes, EUREKA Clusters, etc.
Eindhoven, February 2011
Rudolf Haggenmüller, Chairman ITEA 2 Board
Philippe Letellier, Vice-Chairman ITEA 2 Board
Fopke Klok, ITEA 2 Office Director
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