The European Union is currently losing the race to the Research Fund and supported, but the game is not over, says European Commissioner digital agenda.
Commissioner Neelie Kroes said at the inauguration of the ICT-2010-Driven Digital, the largest information technology event organized by the European Commission, whose funding was clearly a matter of days.
At a time almost universal budget cuts, including discussions on the future of ICT research naturally have a strong economic focus. Taxpayers, ministers and people in need have reason to expect that all public expenditure is duly Kroes said. This does not prevent the increase in public investment in ICT research. But that does not mean that we have to do the strongest possible case.
Public funding is necessary. Long-term research and development is often a risky and expensive IT industry spends twice the automotive industry, and triple that in the pharmaceutical industry for research. Over the past 30 years the European Commission has invested € 20 billion(U.S. $27 billion) in IT research, increasing Europes share of R D from 10 percent to 25 percent of the global IT market.
RWorldwide IT led to a venture capital investment, patents and high-wage employment in almost all industrialized countries, as well as an exhibition of digitally Driven showed more than 100 projects financed by the public. The main topics represented at the Brussels summit of Green IT, intelligent robots and virtual reality innovation.
benefits, research and innovation can bring clearly on display. Green energy to reduce CO2 emissions are presented by BeAware and Solid State Lighting. Both projects have received funding under the 7th Framework Programme.
BeAware created a wireless interactive sensors to measure how much energy is used by household appliances, allowing consumers to identify and reduce energy consumption. The technology is now being tested by the family in Finland and Italy.
Solid State Lighting Project, meanwhile, became organic LEDs, which are five times more efficient than traditional lighting. With lighting accounting for 20 percent of the electricity needs of all of Europe, it can afford to reduce CO2 emissions dramatically.
Presenccia Playmancer are virtual and technological solutions that can help people with physical and mental disorders. Presenccia uses brain-computer interface to help physically disabled people to overcome the loss of a limb. Virtual reality can help teach amputees how to use prosthetic limbs or even help a paralyzed. Meanwhile PlayMancer uses the potential benefits of 3D games to alleviate the negative effects of mental disorders and help patients cope with regular use.
Kompaï and iCube are intelligent robots that are designed to help sick, disabled or elderly who need assistance with everyday tasks. Kompaï can speak, understand what is said, to find his way home. ICube can sit, crawl and pick up objects and learn from their environment, like a child.
Innovations such as these would not be possible without public funding. Overview of the 7th Framework Programme(FP7) is to be published before the end of the year and give the direction of the structure of FP8, which will come into force in 2013.
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