- Feedback Request for 3rd IST Coordinators Day
- 2006 Aho Group Report: Creating an Innovative Europe
- European Innovation Scoreboard Results
- Call for SSA Proposals: Western Balkan Countries Research, closing 06/03/2006
- Call 6 opened 22/12/2005, closing 25/04/2006
- 3rd IST Coordinators Day on Project Management - 31 January 2006
- Photonics21 Technology Platform Launched
- Call for Input: Review of Regulatory Framework for eCommunications and eServices, closing 31/01/2006
- IST 2006 is announced
- More FP6 & FP7 Highlights
Related programmes
IST - Priority 2
European research activities are structured around consecutive four-year programmes, or so-called Framework Programmes. The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sets out the priorities - including the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority - for the period 2002-2006. This site provides essential information for participating in the IST priority.
Call Information
- Open Calls
- Call 6 is now open and closes on 25 April 2006; it covers Ambient Assisted Living, Advanced Robotics, Search Engines for Audio-Visual Content and International Cooperation
- Calls 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Project Negotiation: see negotiation documents (CPF Editor, model contract, etc.)
- Project Management in FP6: Frequently Asked Questions
- List of projects (signed contract): project details are available from the Fact Sheets search page
- International Cooperation: joining forces for a world-wide R&D collaboration
- Research Infrastructures - GÉANT and grids
- Research Activities involving SMEs (craft)
- Marie Curie Actions - Human resources and mobility
- Coordination of research activites (ERA-NET)
- Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices
- Links to Cross-cutting activities
Information Society Related Research in FP6
In addition to the IST Thematic Priority, Information Society related activities can be funded in the following parts of the FP6 programme:
IST Results
- IST Results for online news and analysis on emerging IST research results: prototype products/services ready for commercialisation; work in progress; interim results with significant exploitation potential.
SMEs get better targeted Web searches- Information that is both accurate and timely is particularly important for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Which is why researchers developed a new, intelligent Web search engine that delivers closely targeted results when searching for cheaper suppliers, potential clients and new markets.
- January 27, 2006
A semantic solution to finding information among peers- Peer-to-peer systems have advantages over centralised server-reliant networks, but finding information among multiple distributed databases can prove difficult. European researchers solved the problem by adding Semantic Web technology to P2P networks.
- January 24, 2006
Networking computers to help combat disease- Subtropical diseases lay waste to millions of people each year. In the quest to find a cure scientists are using Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large-scale science, to discover new drugs and better understand the diseases.
- January 23, 2006