The six front runners in the race to be chosen as Europe’s information and communication technology research flagships were announced at the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Conference in Budapest yesterday (4 May).
The projects, selected by peer review from 21 submissions from researchers all over Europe, have been awarded €1.5 million each, and now have a year to develop and refine their proposals before the final beauty parade in which two will be selected for Flagship status and a promised budget of €1 million each over ten years.
The ambition for these two flagships is to deliver major breakthroughs in information and communication technologies that will create important new markets and deliver significant social benefits by helping to deal with problems like chronic disease, climate change and natural disasters.
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Author: Nuala Moran
