ARTEMISIA

Artemisia is the Artemis Industrial Association which represents the research commmunity including Industry (large, small and medium sized companies), universities and research institutes.

The Artemis JU is an organisation based in Brussels that was legally established in February 2008 and it is managed by an Executive Director.

Artemis aims to tackle the research and structural challenges faced by the industrial sector. The objective is to define and implement a Research Agenda for Embedded Computing Systems.

The Artemis JU will manage and co-ordinate research activities through open calls for proposals through a 10-year €2.5 billion research programme on Embedded Computing Systems.

More information can be found on www.artemisia-association.eu.

ARTEMISIA - SRA

A two-tier approach is taken:

on the one hand the SRA should address the R&D challenges that will allow Europe to compete effectively in the future markets of ambient intelligence and to realise a number of visionary applications in the interest of society at large;

on the other hand, the SRA will address structural weaknesses and obstacles, such as openness of middleware and standards, fragmentation of research, or the development of a state-of-the-art research infrastructure.

The SRA will be also aligned to major European policies on competitiveness (notably the Lisbon agenda), sustainable development, transport and eEurope.

More information can be found on www.artemis-sra.eu.

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

The 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).

Information on FP7 ES activities can be found here.

The FP7 ICT section can be found on cordis.

European Research Area (ERA)

The idea of a European Research Area grew out of the realisation that research in Europe suffers from three weaknesses: insufficient funding, lack of an environment to stimulate research and exploit results, and the fragmented nature of activities and the dispersal of resources.

The European Research Area initiative combines three concepts:

• the creation of an "internal market" in research, an area of free movement of knowledge, researchers and technology, with the aim of increasing cooperation, stimulating competition and achieving a better allocation of resources;
  
  
• a restructuring of the European research fabric, in particular by improved coordination of national research activities and policies, which account for most of the research carried out and financed in Europe;
  
  
• the development of a European research policy which not only addresses the funding of research activities, but also takes account of all relevant aspects of other EU and national policies.

More information can be found on cordis.europa.eu/era/.