FET Funding Opportunities on Energy Harvesting at the Nano-Scale: "Towards Zero-Power ICT"

Powering all the electronic devices surrounding us in our daily life is still and will remain a challenge. Therefore "Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive (FET)", part of the European Commission, General Directorate Information Society and Media, will launch a new Proactive Initiative in the call FP7-ICT-2009-5. This Proactive Initiative searches for new and disruptive ideas for energy harvesting and storage at the nanometre and molecular scale to power our future information and communication technologies (ICT). The feasibility of proposed approaches should be demonstrated by the construction of nano-scale autonomous devices able to sense, actuate and/or communicate. To discuss the research challenges and opportunities of this call the Nano-ICT Coordination Action has organized a workshop, which took place on June 23, 2009, in Brussels. You will find the summary of this workshop hereafter. More information on the initiative itself, the call text as well as on the 2zeroP-workshop held in Brussels (June, 23 2009) can be found under: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/2zerop_en.html#news Or contact [email protected]