Interviews with EC Vice President Mrs.Neelie Kroes and winning coordinators

 ICT - Future and Emerging Technologies - "FET through the keyhole" FP7

The new 2013 edition of the FET Newsletter is launched (1538KB)

With this newsletter we wish to inform you about ongoing and future activities and present some key results and achievements of ongoing projects and initiatives in Future and Emerging Technologies. This time we particularly want to bring to your attention the following topics:

• The selection of the two initial Flagships: GRAPHENE and HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT
• The consultation on Directions for FET
• Funding opportunities
• New projects launched in FET
• Information about FET projects in our "La vie des projets" section, featuring FOCUS, OCTOPUS, PHORBITECH and CG LEARNING.

 FET Flagships brochure 

The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition - 04-06 May 2011 – Budapest

• Welcome: Clive Cookson (Financial Times),
• How evolution shapes the way roboticists think
  • József Pálinkás (president - HAS),
  • Dr. Prof. Zoltán Cséfalvay (minister of state for economic strategy and parliamentary affairs - Ministry for National Economy),
• Political welcome address
  • József Pálinkás (president - HAS),
  • Dr. Prof. Zoltán Cséfalvay (minister of state for economic strategy and parliamentary affairs - Ministry for National Economy),
  • Neelie Kroes (vice president - European Comission)
• Opening the exhibition:
  • Clive Cookson (Financial Times),
  • José R. Millán (EPFL
• Official launch of FET Flagship pilots :
  • Hans Lehrach (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics),
  • Jari Kinaret (Chalmers University of Technology),
  • Steven Bishop (University College London),
  • Henry Markram (EPFL),
  • Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna),
  • Adrian Ionescu (EPFL),
  • Neelie Kroes (vice president - European Comission
• Panel discussion on the topic “large vs. small”:
  • Robert Madelin (general director - European Commission Information Society and Media),
  • Jacques Stern (Agence Nationale de la Recherche),
  • Dr. Norbert Kroó (vice president - HAS, professor),
  • Paul Verschure (University Pompeu Fabra),
  • Paul ’t Hoen (Eindhoven Technical University),
  • Jerzy Langer (foreign secretary - Academia Europaea),
  • Clive Cookson (Financial Times)
• Is the age of computation yet to begin?:
  • Artur Ekert (University of Oxford, National University of Singapore)
• The (hopefully near) future of human language technologies:
  • Gábor Prószéky (MorphoLogic)
• Mathematical models to help understand developmental biology and cancer:
  • Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley, Stanford University)
• Constructive cortical computation:
  • Rodney Douglas (ETH Zurich)
• Perspective on Future and Emerging Technologies:
  • Wolfgang Boch (head of unit - European Commission FET Proactive),
  • Aleš Fiala (head of unit - European Commission FET Open),
  • Clive Cookson (Financial Times)
• The science of invisibility:
  • John Pendry (Imperial College London)
• The endogenous dynamics of markets: price impact and feedback loopsAwards ceremony
  • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Capital Fund Management, ESPCI Paris Tech, Ecole Polytechnique)
• Political closing address I.
  • Mario Campolargo (director - European Commission Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures)

 Commission selects six future and emerging technologies (FET) projects to compete for research funding - Brussels, 4 May 2011