"Future and emerging technologies shall support 
     collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s 
     capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. 
     It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on 
     radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development 
     of the most promising emerging areas of science and 
     technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the 
     corresponding scientific communities."
      Open, light and agile           Roadmap based research
        FET-Open               FET           FET 
                            Proactive        Flagships
                                                 Large-Scale
          Early Ideas                            Partnering  
                            Exploration and      Initiatives
          Individual          Incubation
        research projects                      Common research 
                           Topical clusters      agendas
                             of research 
          Exploring          Developing 
                              projects           Addressing 
         novel ideas      topics & communities
                                              grand 
                                              challenges
  FET-Open : novel ideas for radically new
  technologies
   “FET-Open is open!”
   •   No thematic restriction, not necessarily ICT emphasis
         o New areas: space research, medicine, energy…
         o TRL 1-3, successful FET project result is a proof of a concept in a lab
   •   Bottom-up, but targeted - not blue sky research
   •   Collaborative research
   •   Total budget: ~160M€ in 2014-15
   •   Instrument
         o Research and Innovation Action (RIA) - 154M€
         o Coordination and Support actions (CSA) – 6M€
       FET-Open call
       •   Submission & Evaluation
                 o 1 step submission - 1 step evaluation based on FET specific 
                    evaluation criteria
                 o High quality peer review – 4 experts per proposals to best 
                    address multi-disciplinary nature of FET
       •   Time to contract of max. 8 months from cut-of date
                 o ESR within 5 months, contracts within 3 extra months