FI-PPP Overview

The Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) is focused on making infrastructures and business processes smarter (i.e. more intelligent, more efficient, more sustainable) through tighter integration with Internet networking and computing capabilities.

The FI-PPP supports a range of sectors including transport, health, media, manufacturing and energy and defines possible innovative business models for these sectors.

The FI-PPP follows an industry-driven, user-oriented approach that combines R&D on network and communication technologies, devices, software, service and media technologies; and their experimentation and validation in real application contexts. It brings together the demand and supply sides, and it involves users early into the research lifecycle. The platform technologies will be used and validated by many actors, in particular by small- and medium-sized companies and public administrations.

Programme Roadmap

The FI-PPP is based on a three-phased approach with a number of tightly related objectives.

The FI-PPP Programme is implemented through three phases between 2011 - 2016:

Phase 1 2011-12 (Budget €90 million)

This phase focused on laying the technology foundation, defining "use case scenarios" in different industry sectors, making an inventory of available (public) infrastructures via capacity building and Programme support.

Eleven projects were funded through Call 1, which closed in December 2010: 

 

Phase 2 2013-14 (Budget €80 million)

This phase focused on building on the work undertaken in Phase 1 to develop use case pilots and platforms (testing and trials) and setting up infrastructures.

Six projects were funded through Call 2, which closed in October 2012 focused on use case platform implementation. 

  • Transport, Logistics and Agri Food Use case Trial: FIspace 
  • Social Connected TV, Mobile City Services and Video Games Use case Trial: FI-CONTENT 2
  • Smart Energy Use case Trial: FINESCE
  • Manufacturing Use case Trial: FITMAN 
  • eHealth Use case Trial: FI-STAR 
  • Capacity Building and Infrastructures: XIFI

 

Phase 3 2014-16 (Budget 130 million euro)

This phase focuses on expansion of use cases by developing applications and services and extending the technology foundation.

Sixteen Accelerator projects, one Technology Foundation Extension and four Support Actions were funded under Call 3, which closed in December 2013.

Accelerator projects will launch Open Calls for the distribution of grants to SMEs and Web Entrepreneurs as from September 2014. 

Click here for more information on Phase 3 Projects. 

 
 

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