Blended Life in a
connected World
Today, we live a blended life!
Physical and virtual meetings seamlessly come together
We blend our personal and professional lives
We are sometimes consumers and sometimes producers
Blended life is a reality – it brings
both opportunities and strengths
Some key facts on Europe:
ICT broadband territorial coverage of 80%
Mobile penetration of 1.2 contracts/capita vs. 0.9 in the US and 0.8 in Asia
24% share of the global ICT market
Double investment in telecom services sector vs nearest competitor Japan
Drive European ICT
Innovation Leadership
Building The Pillars - Acting as a Catalyst
through focused Action Lines
Europe’s needs and opportunities
Deploy ICT in the European environment
and industry (innovation with ICT)
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Quality of life in our cities
Intelligent environments
A healthy life
Sustainable energy supply
Made in Europe and secured critical
infrastructures
Create a safe and competitive European
ICT infrastructure (innovation in ICT)
• Future Communication
• Service and Data Infrastructures
• Safe Cyberspace
Health & Wellbeing – Prevention through
the Quantified Self
Reduce the demand for expensive healthcare by detecting small physical
and mental health issues early and avoiding larger health problems by
suitable lifestyle interventions.
Cyber-Physical Systems – European
Leadership in Production and Infrastructures
Increase the efficiency and reliability of industrial production systems and
critical infrastructures by combining embedded systems, sensors, control
systems, and data aggregation and analysis technology into smart systemsof-systems.
Smart Energy Systems – Defining
Europe’s Future Energy Market
Contribute to the creation of an open European energy market by testing and
deploying ICT solutions for decentralised power generation infrastructures
and user-centric services for smart energy systems.
Future Urban Life & Mobility – Informed
Citizens and Revolutionised Urban Mobility
Turn ICT breakthroughs into new upscaled urban services to develop new
mobility behaviours as well as citizen empowerment via the validation of new
business models in the context of Smart Cities.
Smart Spaces – Blending the Physical World
and the Virtual World
Create comfortable experiences for users and efficient resource optimisation
solutions for businesses via applying advanced ICT to everyday working and
living environments.
Future Networking Solutions – Building
Europe’s Communication Infrastructure of Tomorrow
Help to ensure the European lead in solutions and standards based on costeffective as well as energy-efficient networking technology, which supports
the traffic demands resulting from an ever increasing and variable set of
applications.
Future Cloud – A Secure Data and Service
Infrastructure for Europe
Drive European competitiveness in the area of Cloud services and Big Data
via the deployment of trusted Cloud technologies and Big Data Analytics
Cloud infrastructures.
Privacy, Security & Trust – A Protected
Blended Life
Mission: Support users and businesses in protecting their digital assets and
transactions, promoting robust and safe products and services that realise
data privacy and security.
Education: Feed the Action Lines
with Talents
Master School Talents bring entrepreneurship
Summer Schools drive innovation uptake
Doctoral School Talents bring cutting edge technology
Master School – Tomorrow’s ICT Innovators
and Entrepreneurs
Create T-shaped professionals with state-of-the-art technical excellence in
key ICT areas, especially in those addressed by the EIT ICT Labs Action
Lines, in combination with strong expertise in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
The goal is to establish a world-renowned Masters Level Education brand.
Doctoral School – Tomorrow’s ICT Leaders
Create world-class ICT Leaders with deep technical expertise in key ICT
areas, especially in those addressed by the EIT ICT Labs Action Lines, in
combination with strong background in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and
establish a world-renowned Doctoral School brand..
Professional School – Certified ICT
Competence
Raise the ICT competence level of Europe’s professionals, especially in
those key ICT areas that are covered by the EIT ICT Labs Action Lines, via
blended learning packages of technology updates with peer-education.
Research: Feed the Action Lines with
Technology Insights and Opportunities
Underpin strategy planning of Action Lines
Scout promising technologies early
Drive utilisation of the Experience & Living Labs and testing infrastructures
Business: Extract Value from the
Action Lines & the Ecosystem
Drive value extraction through business development
Enhance Action Line investments
Attract ideas and companies for Action Line activities and ecosystem
Ensure access to finance through portfolio of attractive contacts
EIT ICT Labs
Support for Start-ups
Health & Wellbeing
113 submissions
790 Submissions
62
Cyber-Physical Systems
57 submissions
57
12
Smart Energy Systems
5
62 submissions
1
Internet of Things
163 submissions
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41
19
152
Smart Spaces
7
2
1
67 submissions
6
86
Future Cloud
5
38
15
3
74 submissions
150
2
15
Cyber Security & Privacy
7
67 submissions
23
4
Urban Life & Mobility
1
187 submissions
Countries with submissions
Non-EU28 / not targeted
A Longer-term
Perspective
2014 – 2016: The Way Ahead
Relationship between EIT ICT Labs
and the environment
 Shaping future European innovation
activities through strategic
collaborations
 Connect to application partners in the
innovation areas of EIT ICT Labs
Highlights of main strategic
collaborations
 Access to finance: Through the collaboration with the European
Investment Fund, EIT ICT Labs will leverage the investment tools of the
European Investment
 Market pull: Through its connection with EuroCIO, EIT ICT Labs will
promote ICT as an innovation accelerator in a broad area of application
areas.
 Accelerate innovation: Future Internet PPP will accelerate the
development and adoption of Future Internet technologies in Europe,
advance the European market for smart infrastructures, and increase the
effectiveness of business processes through the Internet.
Our X-Europe programme
Growing digital innovation across Europe
Strategy
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Implementation of EIT RIS
Centered around Action Lines
Stimulate regional Digital
Innovation Centers
Ambition for 2015
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3-4 regional Digital Innovation
Centers
Execution
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Build on 2014 successes
3 X-Europe Regions
Open call for regional Digital
Innovation Centers
EIT ICT Labs Node countries
X-Europe Region 1
EIT ICT Labs Associate Partner countries
X-Europe Region 2
X-Europe Region 3
Connecting to ICT related ecosystems
worldwide
Longer-term perspective:
opportunities on the horizon
3-D Printing Supercomputing Collaborative Consumption
Brain Understanding Technological Singularity Ambient Computing
Context-based Interfaces Graphene material science
Work-Life Integration Aging Population
For the period 2014 – 2016 EIT ICT
Labs will further step up
Role-out X-Europe EU-28 and connecting to Silicon Valley
Scale up Master and Doctoral Schools, build and run Professional School
Carry out a balanced portfolio of top-down High Impact Initiatives
Expand the pan-European Business Development Accelerator
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High Impact Initiatives
For the period 2014 – 2016 EIT ICT
Labs will further step up
Role-out X-Europe EU-28 and connecting to Silicon Valley
Scale up Master and Doctoral Schools, build and run Professional School
Carry out a balanced portfolio of top-down High Impact Initiatives
Expand the pan-European Business Development Accelerator
EIT ICT Labs Blended education
system
Impact through excellence
2013 KPIs in numbers
127 (+35)
partners
88 (50) innovation
incubations
2 (30) new products
or services
10 (10) knowledge
transfers
820 (600) applications for
MasterSchool
263 (320) students enrolled
66 (100) applicants for
Doctoral School
70 (125) candidates enrolled
38 (40) knowledge
adoption cases
10 (15) new
companies
Governance
EIT ICT Labs Management Team
KIC Central
Coordination
CEO
Willem Jonker
CSO
Chahab Nastar
COO
Stan Smits
MarCom Director
Johanna Gavefalk
ERB
Directors
Education Director
Anders Flodström
Research Director
Fabio Pianesi
Business Director
Klaus Beetz
Node
Directors
ND Berlin
Udo Bub
ND Eindhoven
Patrick Strating
ND Helsinki
Marko Turpeinen
ND London
Dennis Moynihan
ND Paris
Stéphane Amarger
ND Stockholm
Gunnar Landgren
ND Trento
Roberto Saracco
The strength of EIT ICT Labs rests
on our partners
Leading European Organization for
Innovation and Education in
Information and Communication Technologies
Foster entrepreneurial talent and innovative technology
for economic growth and quality of life
Blended Life
EIT ICT Labs Innovation Strategy
Select
from our Eco-System
and beyond
Grow
through our Eco-System
Succeed
in World Markets
Technologies
Cyber-Physical Systems
Future Cloud
Future Networking Solutions
Research
Results
Regular Activities
HIIs
Start-ups
Future Urban Life and Mobility
Health & Wellbeing
Privacy, Security & Trust
Smart Energy Systems
Smart Spaces
Business
Strategies
European
Success
Stories
EIT ICT Labs Education Strategy
Master
School
Doctoral
School
Professional
School
BLENDED EDUCATION
Partner
Universities
CoLocation
Centers
On Line
Platforms
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