The program focusses on the following topics:

ICT Technology Pillars:

• Nano-electronics, photonics and integrated micro/nano-systems
• Ubiquitous communication networks of unlimited capacity
• Embedded systems, data processing and control
• Software, Grids, security and reliability
• Knowledge, cognitive and learning systems
• Simulation, visualisation, interaction and mixed realities
• New Prospects by considering results from other scientific and technological disciplines

Integration of Technologies:

• Personal environments
• Home environments
• Robotic systems
• Intelligent infrastructures

Applied Research:

• ICT to adress critical issues such as societal challenges: healthcare, public administration, integration of people with risk of inclusion, mobility, management of the environment, risk management and sustainable development
• ICT for contents, creativity and personal career development
• Support of enterprises and industry by ICT: companies, business processes, production;
• ICT to promote trust and confidence: personal data management, authentication, privacy, personal rights

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

To support visionary and risky projects in the field of information and communication technologies is the focus of the FET programme for Future and Emerging Technologies. It consists of two funding schemes: FET-Proactive and FET-Open, whereas the latter is thematically open.