HAGRID project: HIGHLIGHTS

The second call for proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme (or ICT PSP) within the Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP), which aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses, opened on 29 April 2008 and will close on 9 September 2008. The indicative budget for the call is 39 million Euro.

The following topics are called:

Theme 1 : ICT for user friendly administrations, public services and inclusion
1.1: Preparing the implementation of the Services Directive
1.2: Reduction of Administrative Burdens across the EU
1.3: Emergency Services Accessible to All - Total Conversation
1.4: ICT for ageing well with cognitive problems, combining assistive and independent living technologies
1.5: Capacity building for eInclusion
1.6: Improving certification of eHealth products

Theme 2 : ICT for energy efficiency and sustainability in urban areas
2.1: ICT for energy efficiency in public building and spaces, including lighting
2.2: ICT for adaptive urban transport management infrastructure and services
2.3: Consensus building and experience sharing for ICT for energy efficiency and sustainability in urban areas

Theme 3 : Consensus building, experience sharing on Internet evolution and security
3.1: A European concerted effort on RFID
3.2: Trusted Information Infrastructures and Biometric technologies
3.3: Leveraging IPv6 take-up in Europe for scaling the expected growth of the Internet

Further informationon the call and the work programme 2008 can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm