Seventh Framework Programme
The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) bundles all research-related EU initiatives together under a common roof, playing a crucial role in reaching the goals of growth, competitiveness and employment; along with a new Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Education and Training Programmes, and Structural and Cohesion Funds for regional convergence and competitiveness. It is also a key pillar for the European Research Area (ERA).
The broad objectives of the FP7 have been grouped into four categories: Cooperation, Ideas, People and Capacities. For each type of objective, there is a specific programme corresponding to the main areas of EU research policy. All specific programmes work together to promote and encourage the creation of European poles of (scientific) excellence.
The areas of research include; Health; Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology; Information and communication technologies; Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies; Energy; Environment (including climate change); Transporatation (including aeronautics); Socio-economic sciences and the humanities; Security; and Space.
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OPTIMIS |
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OPTIMIS (Optimized Infrastructure Services) is a EU FP7 IP project scientifically lead by the Umeå group. The OPTIMIS project takes a holistic approach to management of compute clouds. With the challenges of service and infrastructure providers as the point of departure, OPTIMIS focuses on open, scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that allow flexible and dynamic provision of advanced services.
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RESERVOIR Project |
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The RESERVOIR project is intended to increase the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for the reliable and effective delivery of services as utilities. This infrastructure will support the set-up and deployment of services on demand, and competitive costs, across disparate administrative domains, while assuring quality of service.
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Seventh Framework Cloud Computing Research |
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A group of experts has outlined the future direction of Cloud Computing research in a report that was funded by the FP7. The findings of the final report of the group and the orientations for future research in cloud computing were presented and discussed on January 26 2010, in Brussels.
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VISION Cloud |
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VISION Cloud (Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet) is a research project with the objective to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services, facilitating the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications.
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Report: The Future of Cloud Computing: Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010  |
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January 23 2010
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This document provides a detailed analysis of Europe’s position with respect to cloud provisioning, and how this affects in particular future research and development in this area. The report is based on a series of workshops involving experts from different areas related to cloud technologies.
In more detail, the identified opportunities are: (1) Provisioning and further development of Cloud infrastructures, where in particular telecommunication companies are expected to provide offerings; (2) Provisioning and advancing cloud platforms, which the telecommunication industry might see as a business opportunity, as well as large IT companies with business in Europe and even large non-IT businesses with hardware not fully utilized. (3) Enhanced service provisioning and development of meta-services: Europe could and should develop a ‘free market for IT services’ to match those for movement of goods, services, capital, and skills. Again telecommunication industry could supplement their services as ISPs with extended cloud capabilities; (4) provision of consultancy to assist businesses to migrate to, and utilize effectively, clouds. This implies also provision of a toolset to assist in analysis and migration.
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| Paper: FP7 Fact Sheets |
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October 22 2009
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This document gives an overview of the Seventh Framework Programme including its budget, which research areas it covers, its overall duration, and how citizens, researchers, industry and SMEs can benefit from the programme.
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