The Flagship Scheme
IT Future of Medicine is one of six selected pilot actions in the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Scheme funded over a duration of 12 months starting from May 2011. These Coordination Actions will create a design and description of consolidated candidate FET Flagship Initiatives, including assessment of feasibility in scientific, technical and financial terms. By mid-2012 the FET Flagship Pilots will have to present a structured community in good position to implement their integrated research agenda, including the involvement and commitment from key stakeholders. In the second half of 2012 at least two of the Pilots are expected to be chosen to be launched as full FET Flagship Initiatives in 2013.initiatives by 2013.
The FET Flagship Initiatives are:
- proposed to be visionary research initiatives building on areas of established European excellence and oriented towards a unifying goal via a multidisciplinary approach nucleated from ICT future and emerging technologies
- to generate waves of technological innovation and economic exploitation, ideally in a variety of areas and sectors, and would carry an important societal impact
- envisioned to run for at least 10 years, on a budget in the range of 100 M€ Euros per year and per initiative
- of such magnitude that they can only be realised through a federated effort of the different EC programmes, along with Member States, funding agencies, and where appropriate, global partners and industry
For further information about the FET Flagship initiative please follow this link:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet/flagship/
The FET Flagship initiatives on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FET-Flagships/141589582520429
European Challenges and Flagships 2020 and beyond (pdf)
FET Flagship pilots description